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Yes! The Mouse IS
Mightier Than The Pen...

ANIMATIO

Amiga Style!

► Pro Tips & Tricks

► How-To Projects
• DPaint III •Imagine

► "Morphing" Magic

• Multimedia Tips:
Accent Your Audio!

• 24-Bit Painting

• Single-Frame
Recording — For Less!

• Reviews, Games, More!

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October 1991
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'Mighty Mouse" goes Amiga — p. 115

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VOLUME?, NUMBER 10

OCTOBER 1991

CONTENTS

FEATURES

Good Vibrations By Eric Daniels,

Kelly Da\, Steve Segal, and Mark Swain. . 22
I Icre are some concise pointers and sage
advice from fiiur leading Amiga animators
to help make your creations sparkle.

Visual Alchemy By Tracy Sahin ... 29
Learn the secrets of 2-D "morphing,"

which is as close to magic as yon can get

in the animation game.

IMAGINE Animation

By Steven Biaize 33

Here's a slep-bv-step guide to mastering
Imagine. Impulse's powerful new pro-
gram that's capable of producing amaz-
ing ll-O animations on the Amiga.

Around the World in

80 Frames By Joel Hagen 39

Create an entire world of your own and
set it spinning gloriously in space with
litis planet-building animation tutorial.

ARTICLES

Accent on Audio

By Geoffrey Williams 42

Music and sound ale key ingredients for
spicing up your multimedia presenta-
tions. Try this mix of useful tools and tips.

Creation by Evolution

By Gene Brawn 49

If von haven't yet made the leap hum
2-D in 3-D graphics, here's a good
introduction io help you do so.

COMMAS

Chief Concerns By Doug Barney . . . 6

Users' groups and iheir newsletter
columns are on Harney's front burner
this month.

Accent on Graphics

By Joel Hagen 56

litis month Joel joins the impressionist

school, using DC l"V for some incredible
painterly effects.

VIDEO SUITE By Louis R. Wallace ... 38

Recording lull-screen 2-l-bit sequences
to tape requires single-frame control.
We look al a low-cost option: Panason-
ic's AG 77">o SVH.S VTR with its time-
code card plus Nucleus Electronics'
Personal SFC.

Like our covet {inset above) suggests, the Amiga
is a "mighty" fine machine for doing animation.
This month's features focus on a wide variety oj
animation tips and techniques — both 2-D and
3-D — culled from some of the best Amiga anima-
tors in the business. Whether you're an old hand
or just stinting out. whether you use animation
far video/multimedia presentations or just do it
far fun, we think you'll find something hen- to
"animate" your imagination. And. by the way,
the creator of "Mighty Mouse" (who also did the
illustration for the coi'er) lias been using an
Amiga to create some of the recent comic-book
adventures of MM. For it profile of Ernie C.ohm.
see page 1 1 i.

DEPARTMENTS

Overscan 8

This month Amiga-World expands its re-
cently added column to bring you even
more news, new products, and on-line
developments.

Help Key 86

Lou's all over this month, fielding the

usual barrage of technical teasers,

AW Product Information ... 1 1 8

For contacting lite developers of products
mentioned in this issue ofAmigctWorld.

A W Profile I 15

Meet F.rnie Colon, the creator of
"'Mighty Mouse " and this issue's front
cover illustration.

The Last Word 128

The last page is always yours lo shoot
from [he hip on any topic that happens
to strike your fancy.

REVIEWS

Superbase Professional 4

(Precision) ID

The best of the database bunch
updated.

Real 3D Professional

(Activa International) 17

3-D object modeling made easy.

Pelican Press (Pelican) 98

Making posters and banners isn't just
kid's stuff.

NORGEN (Norris) AND YOUR

Family Tree (MkroMaster) 92

Two programs to trace your genealogy.

RXTOOLS (TTR) 102

Aei elegant interface solution for ARexx
script writing.

PROTEXT (Amor / Michtron) 106

Full-leaiuied word processing — but with-
out [lie Amiga look and feel.

iNFOFlLE (The Disc Company) 107

Competent file manager at a low.price.

SOUNDMASTER (Oxxi/Aegis) AND

Audio Engineer Plus

(liainScan/MicroPace) 109

Tune in on the eighl-bil market for some
slick sounds.

BackTalk 113

Spirited views on AW reviews.

GAMES

CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson. 74

Masterful tips on top .Vmiga games such
as beast II. Elvira, Indiana Jones, The
Immortal, and more.

Centurion: Defender of

ROME (Electronic Arts) 74

Ancient world to reconquer in this new
strategy- offering.

WONDERLAND (Virgin Mastertronic) . 76
"Alice" revisited in a graphics adventure.

The Secret of Monkey

Island (Lucasfiim) 80

Swashbuckling adventure, with plenty of
humor thrown in.

Battle Command (Ocean/

Electronic Arts) 80

The long-awaited follow-up to Carrier
Command.

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Douglas Barney, Editor-in-Chief
Daniel Sullivan, Executive Editor

SWAIN* PRATT, Managing Editor

Barbara Geevert, Senior Editor

Ja.nine L. Jackson, Review Editor

Louis R. Wallace, Senior Editor. Technology: Special Products Manager
Linda Barrett Laflamme. Editor, The Amiga World Tech Journal

TlM WALSH, Technical Editor
Mare-Anne Jarvela, Special Products Coordinator

Gene Brawn, Joel Hagen, David T. McClellan,

PETER OlaFSON, Contributing Editors

Howard G. Happ, Art Director
Laura Johnson, Assistant Art Director

Ann Dillon, Designer

ALANA Korda, Production Supervisor

DEBRA A. DAVES, Typographer

DANIEL HUSTON, Editorial Intern

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JEFFREY D. DeTray, Director of Technology Research

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CHIEF CONCERNS

Behind the users' group scene.

CVK GO I \ BOX inula ■ Mil- l;iblc in
my ofliec lh;it overflows with newslet-
ters from users* groups around the
country, and I've read every one. Some
are pretty sparse, focusing on minutes
and dues and such. Others, though,
have an editorial bite that would make
hit Buchanan and Eel Anger look like
angels.

This level of literacy is one of the
things that is different about the Amiga
market. Many of von combine great
creative skills with emotion, and the
result is plenty powerful. It's no! just in
the newsletters, but also in the letters
we receive from individuals, fust read
The I-ast Word each month and see for
yourself.

fake Larry Lack, for instance. This
Jerry Pounielle/John Dvorak (two fa-
mous computer columnists who don't
write tor AmigaWorld) quasi-done writes
a great column called Digital Dungeon
for The Amiga Users of the Heartland, in
Omaha, Nebraska. Now Larry never
knew I read his newsletters — until, thai
is, he gave Amiga World, and me in
particular, both barrels.

Larry blasted us about an article that
had an error — which was the vendor's
f'aull — and levelled a scurrilous attack
on me lor my sudden discovery ol the'
Amiga, saying I knew nothing about ii
and only likeel it for the money I made
as Editor. Sure, I was a little offended,
especially since some of (he points were
oil' target. But 1 have to admit that
Larry did it with style and humor.

I had to call. Heck, any guy who can
write about "Personal Computer Hy-
giene" and the "I-Yana Trump Card" is
well worth talking to. Besides, the
people who are the harshest critics
sometimes have the best ideas.

So 1 tried to track him down at
home. I tried him at work. Since our
schedules clashed, I stayed late one

nighl and nailed him as he walkerl in
the door.

"Hey. What's all this rotten stuff
you're writing about us, Larry?*' I asked.

"You mean you read our newsletter!"

"I reael 'em all, Larry,*'

-oh."

For the next ten minutes, I laid out
my side of the story, with Larry taking-
copious notes. For the next twenty
minutes, we talked about everything
else, Commodore, the machine, the
magazine, his column.

Minds met. Friendship began. And
now the first thing I do when I get the
Heartland newsletter is turn to Digital
Dungeon.

People like Larrv Lack are the soul of
the Amiga. They take the lime to help
organize a group, keep a newsletter
going, and give a hand to their fellow
users.

These groups get involved in the
markel bv voicing concerns to Com-
modore, keeping mainstream comput-
er publications aware of the Amiga's
existence, and keeping us Amiga maga-
zines on our toes.

Ding Dong, You're Wrong

There are also guys like Paul Metheney,
former editor of The Miami Amigos
newsletter. I got a note from Paul alter
another publication launched a vicious
(we don't mind that) and inaccurate
(now that really bugs us!) attack on
AmigaWorld because of our aggressive
coverage of new products.

To his tremendous credit, Metheney
churned out a very reasonable defense
o£ Amiga World's attempts to cover the
big products first. And it was really well
written. So I called him, too.

Unfortunately, the publishing crew
in question hasn't so far had spine
enough to publish a correction, let
alone any of the many letters from
users complaining about the attack. As
a result. Paul's letter may never get
published.

Anyhow, I happened to pick up
Metheney's latest newsletter, and there

was a quite articulate, funny, and hoti-
esi description of our conversation. I'd

better be careful with guys like Lack
and Metheney around. Stjoner or later,
they'll come after my job.

After I had written the first few para-
graphs of this column, I got a call from
US Army Sergeant Marney, who is
stationed in Garlsiedi, Germany. We
talked about a lot of things, such as
how he used his Amiga to create pre-
sentations about the Gulf War for the
5(100 or so concerned relatives of those
serving, and how he uses Russian fonts
from Classic Concepts in his work as a
Russian linguist.

But mostly we talked about his users'
group, which was kinda torn apart
when so many soldiers were moved to
Saudi Arabia. Marney is now trying to
get the group back together, so if
you're near Garlsiedi, call him up.

Users' groups, if properlv managed
and motivated, can do members a
world ol good. They provide access to
good, cheap public-domain software.
They can wangle deals out of a local
dealer, or even out of Commodore.
They attract good speakers and give
great demos. They act as an informal
Ilea markel. They solve problems. They
keep users abreast of the latest news
and gossip. Thev provide a social bond
between users. Anel thev help keep
Amiga users off the street.

Maybe that's win' some 309c of
AmigaWorld readers belong to users'
groups. Il'vou have ideas abotil how
such groups can be improved, send
'em our wav. and we'll do our best lo
pass them along to that active, com-
mitted 30%. ■

6 October 1991

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► Separate Composite

and Component Video
{rgb + Sync) Genlocks.
RGB genlock operates
in the digital domain,
for digitally perfect
production studio quality mixing: no color
bleeding, no ghosting, no artifacts . . .!

► 15MB frame Butler. Display 24-bit, 16
million color images on your Amiga
monitor. On a multi-sync monitor, you can
even display 16 million color images in
non-interlaced mode!

► Realtime Fpamegrabber/Mgttfeer. Freeze,
grab and store (in standard 4096 or 16
million color IFF format) any frame from a
"live" incoming RGB video source.
Optional "RGB splitter" required to grab
incoming composite or S-VHS video.

► Ffcken-amlnator. Duplicates and enhances
the A3000's display enhancer circuitry. It
even de-interlaces live rrr"
external video! A must for 1-L
any A2000 owner. Ask
about our A2000 "genlock
slot trade-up" program
|in case your genlock slot
is already used by something less exciting!)

► Simultaneous Component Video (RGB) Out,
Composite Video Out and s-vhs Video Out. Now,
anything you can see on your Amiga •
monitor can be recorded on video tape,

including animations, ray-traced 24-bit
images and more!

► Picture-ln-Piclure (PIP) Display. Freeze,
resize, rescale and/or reposition live incom-
ing RGB video just like any workbench
window at the double click of a mouse or
the pressing of a "hot key". With a multi-
sync all this can even be in rock steady
de-interlaced mode. Unique "reverse-PIP"
feature, even allows you to place a fully
functional Amiga workbench (or other
application) screen as a SCALE-ABLE (shrunk
down!) and re-positionable window over
full-screen live video.

► To make sure you can take full and
immediate advantage of every feature of
your new Impact Vision 24 video-station,
we even include the following software
with every unit:

• CafigarHV24. An exclusive
version of the leading
broadcast quality, 3-D
modelling and rendering
program. Use your imagination j^J^^
to model 3D, 16 million color, ^,
scenes. Use your digitized video ~w
images as textures to wrap around
any object! Tire mind is the limit!

• SCALA-TrnHfl. Easy-to-leam, video
titling package complete with lots of
special fonts and exciting special
transition effects. Turn your Amiga
into a character generator.

• MACflOPAI\THV24. A 2D, 16 million color
pamt program that lets you have fun

press a (configurable) "hot key" to acti-
vate any feature.

At GVP, we wanted to make a major impact
on the use of the A3000/2000 by profes-
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For more information on how the Impact
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video productions, call us at 2&-337-8770.

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At Cal Arts, Computer Means Amiga

Where do yon go to learn Disney-style
character animation? To the school

founded by the Disney family, of course:
the California Institute of the Arts. Lo-
cated just outside of Los Angeles, Ca!
Arts' Character Animation Department
uses only Amigas to teach animation.
Several successful animators have put
their careers on hold to brush up at Cal
Arts. It is generally considered the finest
school in the world to learn character an-
imation, and the Amiga has become a
pivotal part of the curriculum there.

While the 165 students in the program
also learn traditional aniamtion tech-
niques, they are required to take a com-
puter class in which they use Deluxe hiint
III (Electronic Arts) and Disney Anima-

Studont Director Sean Schur [left) over-
sees Cal Arts' animation lab from the
back of the room.

tion Studio (Walt Disney Computer Soft-
ware). From there they can move on to
Continued on p. 14.

OVERHEARD

WordFferfeei Corporation is now doing fea-
sibility studies to determine whether
enough people are clamoring for Word-
Perfect Amiga version 5 to warrant its re-
lease. According to AmigtiWorld reader
Diane Carter, the company encourages in-
terested folks to call or write with requests
for the multiplatforin word processor
(1555 N. Technology Way, Orem, UT
84057 801/225-5000). If Waidftrfect gets
enough response, you will see the update.

Little Big Show

ORLANDO— "It's not fair to compare a
market like Orlando to that of New York or
LA," said one exhibitor. And she was right.
Summer AmiEXPO in Orlando was about
half the size of the spring show in New York
City. But given the location, the state of the
economy, and the increasing number of
shows Amiga developers must consider
(Siggraph began just days later), it was not
bad. Many of those who doubted that good
things come in small packages were pleas-
antly surprised. Exhibitors treated the en-
thusiastic attendees to some interesting dis-
plays and announcements.

As with the last EXPO, this show offered
no games, but instead a good amount of
video gear and software. JVC (RS# 120)
showed off a range of cameras and equip-
ment, and /0£ZV (RS# 121) demonstrated its
line of TBCs. The biggest news of the show
was the 24-bit graphic board from GVP (RS#
122). The A3000/A2000 Impact Vision 24
board (S2199), which occupies both a Zorro
II slot and the video slot, offers PIP (Picture-
in-Picture) capabilities. This lets you display

video in a resizable, movable window on the
Workbench. The hardware will be bundled
with a version of Octree's (RS# 1 23) 3D rnod-
eler/renderer Caligari and GVP's MacroPaint
and Scala programs. Another couple of sur-
prises from GVP came in the form of music
products. Representatives demonstrated a
new 8-bit sound sampler (Digital Sound Stu-
dio, S125) and spoke of a 12-bit sound board
that's slated to sell for $399.

Drawing a crowd disproportionate to its
booth size was Blue Ribbon SoundWorks
(RS# 124). Professional guitarist Mike Torres
provided both entertainment and a demon-
stration of Bars&Pipes Professional. Blue Rib-
bon worked with a prototype of SunRize's
(RS# 125) 12-bit sound sampler (which
promises direct-to-disk recording) and Blue
Ribbon's own SunSet supporting software.
The company also announced Jam ($99).
Due out before the holidays, this composi-
tion software is for people who "know noth-
ing about music and can't carry a tune in a
bucket." It is designed to easily integrate mu-
sic into multimedia productions.

Next door in the Axiom (RS# 126) booth
was Pixel 3D 2.0, an upgrade to the popular
2-D bitmap to 3-D object converter. This
new version supports more 3-D formats and
has a wealth of new features. Programmers
were also there demonstrating the 2.0 ver-
sion of 3D Professional (from Progressive
Peripherals & Software (RS# 127) that's
scheduled for fall release (3399, or $100 for
registered owners of the earlier version). In-
terestingly, it was running on an A3000 with
Progressive Peripherals' 68040 card and the
Rembrandt high-resolution 24-bit card. 3D
Pro now provides new animation features,
full-point vertex editing, extensive texture
mapping, and Boolean object functions. 3D
Professional retains support for X-Specs 3D,
the liquid-crystal stereoscopic glasses re-
leased three years ago by Haitex.

In case you ever wondered what hap-
pened to Haitex (RS# 128), it is back with
X-Specs TV, which allows you to view 3-D
images from videotape (using X-Specs, of
course).

C.mtlhuted on j>. 14.

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More Power!

Continuing with its popular Power Up
program, Commodore is offering cost sav-
ings on Amiga 500 bundles. Until October
31, owners of Commodore 16, 64, 64SX,
128, Plus/4, PET and VIC computers— as
well as students and educators — can up-
grade to the one-megabyte A500P comput-
er/software bundle for up to S300 off the
usual price of $799, or choose an A500S as-
semblage for S200 off the S599 suggested
retail.

Several documents can serve as "cou-
pons" at Amiga dealerships. For Com-
modore owners, the CPU serial number of
your qualifying computer written onto its
original manual cover is your ticket to sav-
ings. Students need to present either a
high-school diploma, a college ID card, or
college acceptance letter. Educators must
show a school ID or a business card to re-
ceive the discount. For more information on
the program, call 800/66-AMIGA or contact
an authorized dealer.

— BG

Musical Scores

Jagged, bitmapped printouts are
what you get from Electronic Arts'
Deluxe Music Construction Set
(DMCS). Unless you have Copyist
Companion (S30, NerveWare), that is.
Copyist Companion converts DMCS
files into a format compatible with Dr.
T's musical-notation program The
Copyist, which delivers high-resolution,
professional-quality output. (RS# 105.)
In case that won't help and you are just
not happy with any of your music soft-

ware, consider Blue Ribbon Sound-
Works' upgrade offer. Until December
15, you can trade in any Amiga music
program for Bars&Pipes or Bars&Pipes
Professional — for just S99 or SI 99. re-
spectively. Send in your payment plus
the manual cover of the program yon
would like to trade, or contact Blue Rib-
bon customer service for more informa-
tion. (RS# 106.)

— BG

The Mediator

Will a PC/AT keyboard work with your
Amiga? Now it will, with The =KB- TALK-
ER= ($69.95) by Co-Tronics Engineering.

This device promises to work with all IBM
PC/AT-compatible keyboards (not XT-types),
and all Amigas — although the A500 requires
a special adapter cable and a modification
of the case. The =KB- TALKER= is compat-

ible with bar-code/UPC-reading keyboards,
such as the Cherry G80-1600 keyboard and
bar-code reader. It provides full "Num Lock"
support, requires no changes or additions
to software and no additional power. Pur-
chasers are entitled to free uprades for the
first year. (RS# 102.)

—DM

Sometime in latejune, Amer-
ican PeopleLink, the network
that knowledgeable Amiga en-
thusiasts had come to revere for
both its files and helpful social
atmosphere, quietly succumbed
to mysterious woes. Unfortu-
nately, one of the problems with
the demise of Plink was that
there was lilt If warning. Despite
having logged on daily. I
wouldn't have guessed that any-
thing was amiss had I not re-
ceived the inside word in ad-
vance from the sysops. After the
shutdown occurred, a call to the
local Tymnet number for Plink
would produce a forlorn screen
message that read "PCI -call
cleared (c 19.d 81): local proce-
dure error.™

Without missing a beat, many
of the frequent attendees, sy-
sops, and personalities of
PLink's AmigaZone swiftly
moved to the network system
called Portal, headquartered in
Cupertino, California. Lead by
PI. ink's former AmigaZone
Chairman Harv Laser, these

ON-LINE

SCAN „,

['Linkers went to work like
crazed roustabouts and in a re-
markably short lime, installed a
multitude of Amiga files, ar-
ranged conferences, scheduled
events, and generally made the
Porta] environment a new home
for displaced PLinkers.

Signing on to Portal lias been
made easy, too. IT you're a for-
mer PLinker interested in
checking out Portal, you can
sign up on-line. Just use your
modem-equipped Amiga to call
your local Telenet or Sprintnet
number and instead of entering
"(.: PLINK" at the final connect
prompt, enter "C PORTAL'.

Once you've logged on as a
new member, enter "GO REFU-
GEE" it) join the other displaced
PLinkers. Be forewarned,
though, that Portal differs in ap-
pearance from most other na-
tional networks. Some long-time
Plink Amiga users are not near-
ly as nice in their descriptions of
Portal, either. Coddled by
PLink's forgiving and relatively
effortless user interlace. corn-

Tim Walsh

plaints are commonplace within
Portal's Amiga message boards.
Personally, I disagree with the
faultfinders, including those of
stature and expertise in the Ami-
ga community, who have found
IVirial cumbersome to navigate.
Sure, a lew more keystrokes are
needed to maneuver about the
system, but after a dozen or so
sessions, I have committed most
instructions to memory. Looking
at Portal more as a BBS and less
as a network, experienced tele-
communication users will know
it's a matter of programming
some Function keys, setting up
some macros, and changing set-
tings on Portal to a shortened
command line. Admittedly, it
takes time to become accus-
tomed to unusual screen prompts
containing such terms as edit,
logout, add_article, and unsub-
scribe, but you can get explana-
tions for these and other mysti-
fying commands simplv bv typ-
ing "HELP BEGINNER" or
"HELP" followed by the com-
mand name in question. Also, all

inductees receive a New User's
Guide fiom Portal, which goes a
long way in helping beginners to
comprehend the system.

One of the first Amiga files I
encourage everyone to retrieve
from the Amiga file area is
called HOWTGPORTAL.LZH,
written by Rick Plavnicky. Al-
though be is not a Portal em-
ployee, Plavnicky has taken the
lime to write an 1 1-page refer-
ence document designed to
help former PLinkers through
the transition period. Be certain
to check out the other Amiga
files on Portal. It's the only na-
tional network that slocks the
entire Fred Fish Disk collection
of freely-distributable Amiga
software.

If you're interested in a Portal
account, here is the necessary
information:

Portal Communications Co.

10385 Cherry Tree Lane
Cupertino. CA 95014
Voice: -108/973-91 1 1
Data: 408/725-0561

On an aside, a Federal Com-
munications Commission form
letter I recently received sets to
rest the question of a modem-tax
proposal thai was posted on GE-
nie and mentioned in the July
isssue l p. 10). According lo the
letter, no such proposal exists.

HI October 1991

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Animation 101

For those interested in taking a course
in real-lime Amiga animation lor video,
Myriad Visual Adventures oilers Anima-
tion 101 ($35). The one-hour VHS tape
is a two-part course for beginners. It cov-
ers animation and motion study, and has
a brief section thai aims to clear up some
of the confusion about video editing.
(Part 1 won second place the Industrial
Video category at the '9 1 New York Ami-
EXPO). The animated sequences on the
tape were recorded in real time using ba-
sic software and hardware. (RS# 101.)

— DH

Put one foot In front of the other — with
some help from Animation 101.

Commodore Goes To Washington

WASHINGTON, DC— Imagine how excit-
ing history would be if you could actually wit-
ness the events that shaped our world. While
technology does not currenty support time
travel, you can see the next best thing to be-
ing there — at DCs Smithsonian Institute.

Commodore teamed up with Pioneer
Electronics and: Scholastic Books to donate
three systems for presenting "Visions of
American History: Struggles for Justice Vol-
ume 1 : African American, Native American,
Latino," an interactive exhibit. Scholastic de-
signed the courseware for this educational
extravaganza to run on an AmigaVision-

equipped A2500/30 connected to a Pioneer
laser-disc player.

The exhibit draws you into the material
with historical footage, simulations, maps,
charts, biographies, and time lines in an at-
tempt to make history lessons as close to
personal experience as possible. According
to Commodore's Director of Educational
Marketing Paul Calkin, Scholastic hopes that
the course will give students not only a
more accurate account of history, but also
a feel for the sacrifices made by the ground-
breakers in our past.

-JJ

Mouse Alternatives

Perhaps you use your mouse hour af-
ter hour, day after day. Perhaps you're
tired of moving your arm and wrist into
precarious positions, and arc suffering
from finger cramps trying to get the pre-
cision you need. Perhaps you haven't
heard of Mouse-trak. Mouse-Irak, by
ITAC Systems, is what you gel when vou
place a two-inch phenolic ball on hard-
ened stainless sieel shafts and bearings
for precision, and add a wrist pad for
cushioning the hand. It comes in two
models, the MQ2 (8 1 59) and the MQ3
(SI 69). This stationary device, designed
for precision and comfort, oilers a toggle
mode (press to start, move the cursor,
and press again to release) to reduce
hold-and-drag ringer cramps. It also of-
fers user-definable-keys, and cursor-
speed control. (RS# 103.)

Another option for mouse opponents
is TriMedia'a Amiga Wiz digitizing
tablet (S249). The Wiz hardware, man-
ufactured bv Cakomp, oilers n 7.5x7.5-
inch active area and 10(10 lines-pcr-inch
resolution. A iwo-buiton pen comes
with the package, but if you need a
more precise method of tracing, you

OVERHEARD

"The change is in name only," said a
spokesperson for Stylus inc., formerly
entitled Taliesin. "1'he firm, known lor its
structured-drawing program I'm Vector,
also noted dial il is sending live 2.0 up-
grades to registered owners, so if you have
not yet mailed your registration card, do so
nowl The company retains its address and
phone number: PO Box 1(571, Ft Collins,
CO 80522, 303/484-7321.

can opl for Calcomp's six-button
mouse-style cursor with cross-hairs
(S75). TriMedia provides a five-year
warranty and control software for all
Wiz options. The Amiga Wiz attaches
via the serial port (the A 100(1 requires
a gender changer). (RS# 101.)

— DH

All Business

LabelDex! ($74.95, EasyScript!) promis-
es to solve the problems of organizing and
managing the name/address/phone lists,
floppy disk libraries, and electronic mail ad-
dresses that you are now accumulating in
disarray. LabelDex! is compatible with
dBASE, the popular MS-DOS database
manager, and supports ARexx. Not only can
it search, sort, and dial the phone, it can also
log floppy-disk information straight from the
disk, and automatically format and print pro-
fessional-looking disk labels. (RS# 113.)

Small, fast, and memory-resident, Con-
tact 1.2 (S59, Desktop Utilities) is a person-
al-contacts manager and database that you
can summon with a hot key. Like LableDexl,
it can search, sort, and dial the phone. It can
also send entries directly to your current
document or to a printer (PostScript includ-
ed). The program is compatible with Work-
bench 2.0 and customisable through ARexx.
To prevent accidental losses, Contact auto-
matically saves new entries whenever you
press the Return key. Registered users are
encouraged to send their ARexx scripts to
the developer — any script that is included in
the next release of Contact will win its author
a free upgrade. (RS# 1 14.)

Designed specifically for special-events
videographers, the Video Escort (Mr. Hard-
ware) management system provides eight
computerized forms to cover all aspects of
the business. The program works with Pre-
cision's Superbase Professional 3.02; you
can purchase both packages for $399.95 or,
if you already own Superbase, you can buy
Video Escort alone for S299.95. Video Es-
cort's efficient data-entry system reuses
previously entered data whenever possible.
Not only can the software help you track
client needs, special requests, phone calls,
deposits and payments made, and balances
due, but you can also print job contracts, re-
ceipts, crew schedules, editor's sheets, and
over 20 other reports, including a sales-tax
report. Video Escort can also keep track of
crew and event scheduling, and you can
modify all variable information. For security,
Video Escort is password-protected. (RS#
115.)

For file security in networked computer
systems, Intercore Development has re-
leased InterLock (359.95), a programming
utility. InterLock promises to give Amiga-
DOS an advanced set of file-locking routines
that are flexible, fast, and efficient. The utility
is implemented as an Exec-style resident li-
brary. You can call it from any language; the
program suports both the Manx and SAS C
compilers, along with various 68000 assem-
blers. With InterLock, programmers can cre-
ate multiuser applications that allow simul-
taneous access to a single file. (RS# 1 16.)

— BG

12 October 1991

HE AMIGA MIND

Unleash The Artist Within Wm

i Natural Talent Required I

esignWorks
rk For You

you've been looking for a fast,
asy-to-use, high quality structured
rawing program, look no further.
ow you can unleash the artist
within with DesignWorks, the
structured drawing program de-
signed for the Amiga mind.

Creativity In The
Fast Lane

DesignWorks is built for speed.
No longer are slow and cumber-
some programs needed to
achieve professional results.
DesignWorks is the ultimate
in simplicity, with a responsive
interface and design set.

The Highest Form Of
Self-Expression Is Now
The Least Expensive

DesignWorks costs far less
you would expect from a
structured drawing program with
this much speed and flexibility. With
a Bezier smoothing algorithm, un-
limited numbers of drawing layers,
flexible text handling system and
user-definable multi-color patterns,
you don't need to be a professional
engineer or CAD programmer to
achieve quality results. And high
resolution printing means you get
near-PostScript quality output from
your dot matrix printer.

Slop by your local Amiga dealer
to see DesignWorks in action.

Draw Yoir Own Concu sions

Fast and Intuitive structured drawing
Create lines, rectangles, ovals, polygons, and

freehand objects
Smoothed (Sexier) curves
Optional arrows on tints
Duplicate, rotate, flip, and scale objects
Text with multiple fonts, sizes, styles, and colors
Import/export IFF pictures
Automatically align objects relative to each other
Automatic grid snap
Group objects together
Variable line thickness
Customizable mulii-enlor fill patterns
Multiple drawing layers
AREXX port

Macros, when used with AREXX
Magnified and reduced views
Drawing up to 100 inches by 1 00 inches in size
Up to ID drawings open at the same tunc
Inch or centimeter rulers
Near- PostScript quality priming on dot-matrix

printers, full 4096 color printing
Complete printer control, including sideways

printing
Fully customizable
Full support for Kickstart 2.G
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Suggested retail price: $125.00

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V e k s <; \ \

Having trouble creating .software with
the "look and feel" of the Amiga? Your
It ictids at Commodore-Amiga have writ-
ten a book that can help, Amiga User In-
terface Style Guide (£2 1 .95, 224 pages).
This addition to the Amiga Technical
Reference Series details all the standard
elements of the Amiga user interface, and
documents the conventions that you
should follow when writing applications.
It provides definitions, descriptions, and
illustrations of the Amiga's three built-in
interlaces — the graphic user interface,

the Shell, and ARexx — and depicts such
graphics as gadgets and windows. The
Amiga User Interface Style Guide is de-
signed for all interface designers, from
novice to expert. (RS# 107.)

If the software you generated with an
authoring system needs a better look,
you may be interested in INOVAtronics'
Interface Design Kit (554.95), a four-
disk collection of button and icon clip
art. The kit is for use with such author-
ing systems as Commodore's AmigaVi-
sion and INOVAtronics' own CanDo. It

contains over 50(1 ready-to-use images
(in hi- and medium-res brushes) that
represent functions frequently used in
multimedia applications: videodisc, mu-
sic, sounds, trashcan, mouse, printer, an-
imation, pic. clock, document, floppy
disk, and more. It also provides mathe-
matical symbols, many shies of arrow
buttons, and generic round, square, and
rectangular button images. A 30-page
manual directs you to each brush's loca-
tion on the disks. (RS# 108.)

—DH

Cal Arts, from p. 8.

advanced techniques with such 3-D pro-
grams as Imagine (Impulse).

The 2000-square foot computer lab,
open 24 hours a day, the lab was funded
primarily from a grant from Disney. It
holds nine A3000s, three 2500s, and an
assortment of A500s and A 1 000s, all of
which arc cabled to AProDraw (R&DL)
drawing tablets. The computers are
linked via Ethernet to a Sun workstation
that contains all of the lab's software,
freeing up the hard drives and disks for
the students' work. Two Video Toasters
(NewTek) and an assortment of frame
grabbers, slow-scan digitizers, and other
peripherals are also available. One area
is devoted to single-frame animation
and video transfer.

Teaching Talent

An important part ofwhal makes the lab
work is the knowledge ana 1 enthusiasm
of Amiga experts Dale McBeath, Assis-
tant Department Director, and Sean
Schin; who is not only an instructor, hut
a student as well. Both are artists and
programmers; they have written custom
software for the lab and even modified
such programs as Animal ion: Journey-
man (Hash). Dale is also a hardware
guru, having built and designed an Ami-
ga-based switching system. Sean's back-
ground is in film directing. Me has ex-
tensive knowledge of computers, being
involved with the Computer Research
Institute. He is also an experienced
teacher of advanced 3-D courses, where-
in he pushes the state of the art in Amiga
animation.

Besides its regular Amiga animation
courses, Cal Arts has a Visiting Artists
Program that has tapped the talents of
such well-known Amiga animators as
Gene Brawn, Joel Hagen, Jodv (filler-
man, and Brad Schenck. This program
provides a two-week locus on each artist's
area of expertise.

At the end of each year, the Cal Arts

students present their work to producers,
some who come from as far away as
Japan and Germany, At least a third of
the students are hired on the spot, even
before they graduate. The Simpsons
television show, for instance, employs
Cal Arts graduates almost exclusively,
and you'll find large numbers of alumni
working for all the major animation pro-
duction facilities.

A new room is now being added to
the lab, and pending additional grant

money, Cal Arts hopes to expand its ca-
pabilities dramatically. .Staffers are also
doing experimental work with virtual
reality. Dale has written custom software
Ibr the project, and with Sean has de-
signed and built a helmet and glove.
The two hope to soon do more with
3-D — interactive sculpting, finger
painting, and character design — and to
allow viewers to interact with a tluee-di-
mensional environment

— Geoffrey Williams

Little Big Show, from p. 8.

Down the way. Centaur (RS# 129) dem-
onstrated the Colorburst 24-bit graphics
board. Jaded by previous demontrations of
it, I was not excited until I saw the box — the
board is finally shipping!

Programs Plus 8 Video (RS# 130)
showed an upgraded version of Real 3D
(1.4), now designed to take advantage of
an '040 accelerator.

ICD (RS# 131) showcased Prima, its new
internal A500 hard drive, available in sizes
of up to 105 megabytes. Because Prima
needs the space occupied by the A500's in-
ternal floppy, ICD also now offers the Shuf-
fleboard (S25), which allows you to make
any external drive DF0:. The company's
Novia internal A500 hard drives now come
in 30- and 60-megabyte capacities and do
not require removal of the internal floppy.

New hardware under development by
INOVAtronics (RS# 132) will give A500
owners a video slot and lots of room for ex-
pansion in the form of a "tower." The unit
will be available first as a kit. The company
also showed a slick, easy-to-use directory
utility called Directory OPUS ($59), which
has scores of configurable features.

Those wanting to further configure their
system speed have just one equation to
solve: 2.0+x = 68040. (Hint: x is the time
Commodore needs to release AmigaDOS
2.0.) Among exhibitors holding 68040
boards until the 2.0 release were RCS
(RS# 133), Progressive Peripherals & Soft-

ware, GVP (which now promises a clock
rate beyond 25 MHz), and CSA (RS# 134,
with its 40/4 Magnum hardcard, which
also provides serial, parallel and RS 422
ports and accepts 64 megs of RAM).

Picking up the slack for NewTek, which
was not in attendance with its usual larger-
than-life display, was BreadBox |RS# 135),
the Video Toaster users' group. BreadBox
displayed some of the latest Toaster tapes
and demos.

In addition to its usual schedule of key-
note addresses, seminars and master
classes, AmiEXPO offered a series of
novice classes. Show representatives also
announced AmiEXPO's Fourth Annual Art
and Video Contest. Submissions will be ac-
cepted for seven categories, and winners
will be announced at the spring 1992 show,
For details, entry forms, or more show in-
formation, contact AmiEXPO, 465 Colum-
bus Ave., Suite 285, Valhalla, NY 10565,
914/741-6500.

The next AmiEXPO is scheduled for Oc-
tober 4-6 in Oakland, California. Following
that will be Amiga '91 in Cologne, Germany,
which runs October 31 -November 3,

—BG

Overscan is compiled by Barbara Gefvert,
Janine Jackson, and Tim Walsh. Send your
news, new products, and network informa-
tion to Overscan, AmigaWorld Editorial, 80
Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458. ■

14 October 1991

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REVIEWS

superbase
Professional 4

Look! Up in the sky!

By Loren Lovhaug

ITS FASTER AND more powerful

than its Amiga competition, and it's
able to leap beyond traditional
database applications into the realm of
multimedia. It's a relational database...
it's an object-oriented programming
environment . . . it's Snperbase Profes-
sional -1 (SB4)! Yes, one of the prime
defenders of productivity software the
"Amiga Way," Precision Software has
released another blockbuster sequel.

Before we take a look at SB4 ($495),
let's review the Snperbase story. From
its earliest Amiga release. Snperbase
earned the title of "king of the hill" as
far as Amiga database-management
programs are concerned. Even as
the product evolved into a fully pro-
grammable and relational database-
management system, its designers have
never lost sight of their goal — to make
the product's powerful features accessi-
ble and straightforward. This is why
Snperbase is one of those rare products
ill. ii is equalh attrat live to the uovk e
with minimal needs as well as to the
experienced user who demands power
and performance.

Sensitive to the diversity of its clien-
tele, Precision split the evolution of
Snperbase into separate tracks. Super-
base Personal offers an inexpensive,
nonprogrammable version of the
product, while Snperbase Professional
affords a full-blown implementation
that stands up to database-manage-
ment systems available on any
platform.

Up, Up, Upgrade

SB-! For the Amiga addresses several
of the minor deficiencies of Superbase

Professional 3 (see July '89, p. 14)
while adding legions of new Features —
so many, in fact, that editorial space
and postal weight regulations prevent
me from covering them in detail. To
give you an idea of this upgrade's
scope, consider that the program's
documentation grew from around 550
pages to more thai 900 pages. Within
vou will find over 250 new DML pro-
gramming constructs, several new
menu choices, and a multitude of
other enhancements.

Thankfully, the new version is fully
read-compatible with previous versions
of the program, but if you reorganize
your database under SB4, vou will
need to export the data for use with
earlier versions.

Since the introduction of SB4 for
Windows, many of us have been clam-
oring for the enhancements found in
the MS-DOS version. I am happy to
report that our calls have been an-
swered. In fact, other than the areas
where the plai forms involved diverge,
SB4 for the Amiga and Windows are
data-compatible and operate alike. The
operational similarities between ibese
two versions ol SB I mean applications
written in DMI. (the Snperbase pro-
gramming language) require only
minor or. in many cases, no modifica-
tion to run under either version of
Superbase. litis gives Amiga Superbase
owners the ability to tap into the
wealth of applications created for use
oil MS-DOS machines.

Perhaps even more exciting than the
compatibility with the MS-DOS version
ofSB4 is the enhanced Forms Design-
er. Previous versions of the program
allowed you to create custom data-
entry screens and define relationships
lot multifile applications. SB !"s Forms
Designer, however, now includes a
more efficient design and a number of
new Features.

Of the Forms Designer's new Ica-

tures, 1 was most impressed with its
three new object types. These add a
higher degree of automated and inter-
active control to on-screen forms and
DML applications. The CMD object
makes it easier to add embedded auto-
matic commands as well as to create
on-screen push buttons that execute
DML commands. Your push buttons
can be either solid or transparent rect-
angles with titles in the colors of your
choice. The program gives you the
option of defining hot spots over IFF
backgrounds or other Forms-Designer
objects.

Two more objects allow you to de-
fine graphics-based data-entry con-
structs. You can create a set of specific
responses for a field with radio but-
tons that a user can select via the
mouse or l>v pressing the Tab or
Spacebar keys. Likewise, using check
boxes, you can create a graphical
means for selecting binary choices
such as yes/no or true/false.

Another benefit ofSB4's new Forms
Designer is that now it is much easier
to define relationships among multiple
files. This was once a coniiising and
tedious chore, but now you can define
these relationships simply by choosing
a primarv and secondary file and draw-
ing a line on screen linking the fields
in question. The same holds true when
linking and replicating fields to define
one-to-manv relationships (transaction-
al processing).

One problem that plagued pre-SB-1
versions of the Forms Designer in-
volved fonts. Although previous ver-
sions allowed vou to display informa-
tional text and field names using any
screen Font vou wished, you could noi
display your field dala itself in any font
other than the system font. This stum-
bling block has been removed, so that
when you use the dcsktop-piibhsliing-
like tools provided, it is very easy to
construct attractive data-entrv and

For information about the vendors of products reviewed, see "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 118.

lOOfluber 1'i'it

processing screens. In addition to these
facilities are a number of new options
Tor importing non-IFF graphics, scal-
ing images, and working with image
palettes.

DMI. control is another benefit oi the
new Forms Designer. DMI. now pro-
vides a complete complement of high-
level commands for dealing with every
sort of mouse, pull-down menu, control
panel, and key-press event occurring in
conjunction with screen forms and their
new object types. Further enhancing
DML's form-control facilities is a new
set of commands for actually defining a
new form and adding form objects
completely under DML, thereby allow-
ing you to bypass the form designer
itself for applications where it might be
desirable to do so.

What's in Store?

Although you may care little about MS-
DOS compatibility or the Forms De-
signer, there are still plenty of reasons
why you may want SB-1. "lb begin with,
Precision optimized Superbase's inter-
nal storage format in order to provide
better performance and increased
storage capacitv. Precision asserts that
Superbase can now stoic, index, and
retrieve information bom a one-bil-
lion-record database. In addition, SB-1
now includes a single-character logical
field type as well as virtual fields.
Precision extended Superbase's
ARexx support and provides adequate
doauneniaiion. Overall, the manuals
are greatly improved. We no longer
have to live with the fascinating trivia
on installing the Atari ST version of
Superbase. the easy-to-lose stapled
addendum booklet, and the 27K read-
me file. Replacing these rough edges
are two well-written, beautifully illus-
trated, tab-divided manuals in D-Ring
binders.

With Superbase
Professional 4,
boring database
screens are a thing
of the past.

Linking your data
base files is as
simple as drawing
lines on screen from
one file to another.

Precision improved both the Super-
base label-dialog and report-genera-
tion facilities which now incorporates
many new options and is substantially
easier to use. And Finally, Precision
opted to make SB4 noncopv-protected
right out of the box.

So do I have any gripes about SB4?
Just two. First, SB4 comes with only
slightly better than Preferences-based
printer support. While I realize this
meager support reflects mostly on
Commodore, given a package of this
price and stature, 1 would like to see
better support for resident and soft
printer fonts. Lastly. I think that the
indexes of the new manuals are a bit
skimpy for 900 pages of text.

Overall, however, SB-1 carries on the
Superbase tradition of excellence. The
enhancements, particularly those made
to the Forms Designer, expand Super-
base's potential considerably. SB4's
interactive on-screen-button support
and programmable nature make the
program ideal for multimedia applica-
tions, especially when you need data-
base accessibility on a grand scale.
These new-found talents combined
with the product's success as a tradi-

tional relational database manager,
truly make it super.

Real3D Professional

Closing the gap betweeen reality
and imagination.

By Kelly Day

IF NOT A SCULPTOR, an artist re-
quires the imagination to translate 3-D
reality into what is essentially a 2-D
medium, Photography gave us a rela-
tively simple means to convert a 3-D
world into 2-D form, but in many ways
it left out the imagination or inner
vision so close to an artist's heart. The
advent of computers, coupled with 3-D
modeling programs, gave us the op-
portunity to get back some of that,
however, by providing us with a kind
of camera of the imagination.

The trouble is thai this new medium
has been too complex and 3-D software
has required too much tedious calcu- *■

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R li V I K W S

lation an tinkering. Hint's where pro-
grams \ikc Activa Internationals
RealSD Professional (S-H19) are ready to
make a dill'erence. The idea behind
RealSD is to minimize the model-build-
ing process that more often than not
hinders a designer's progress rather
than helping it. RealSD accomplishes
this by eliminating the process of work-
ing directly with points or vertices.
To create designs in RealSD, you
combine wireframe representations of
simple primitive objects (cones, cubes,

spheres, etc.). Initially, I balked at this
approach, because 1 always liked die
detail that direct control over vertices
gives me, but some of RealSD's built-in
features present a very convincing
counter argument.

At the Count of Three

Real3D is divided into three basic
sections. First, you create and edit your
scenes and objects. In the second, you
rotate these objects and make adjust-
ments to their positions so that when

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you put the third section — the render-
ing mode — to use, the observer's point-
of-view is precisely the way yon want it.

RcalSD's tri-view is similar in some
respects lo Byte- by-Byte's Sculpt 41)
environment. Not only does it provide
three views of vour scene, bin it also
provides markers for your observer
position (camera), aim point or target.
secondary [jointer, and lamps.

As mentioned previously, von build
your models by continuously adding
primitive objects to a hierarchical struc-
ture. There are three reasons why ibis
process is more accessible than any 3-D
program I've previously used. First,
because what yon see is a simplified
wireframe of each primitive and not all
of its constituent surfaces, the tri-view
is kept very clean and clear of extrane-
ous lines.

In addition, the color that you select
for each primitive object is reflected in

RealSD Pro lets you model with lines
first, before you commit to rendering.

its wireframe color, which also helps to
keep individual primitives quite distin-
guishable from one another. Typically,
hierarchical systems prove cumbersome
when you are designing in a 3-D envi-
ronment, because they require that you
stop designing and name each little
part as you go along.

RealSD eliminates this stop-and-go
process by automatically naming each
object for you as you create it. It gives
each object a temporary name, such as
"Cubel" or "Sphereo," for example.
You can either pay attention to the
naming and hierarchical placement of
each object as you go along, or you can
completely forget about it and rename
them later. RealSD lets yon rename
each object and then copy, cut, and
paste individual pieces into the roots of
the hierarchical tree.

Working with outlines of objects
makes designing simple. There is no
need to put a boundary box around a
set of points in order to quickly move •>

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R K V I E W S

them. Each primitive object is born
with its own simplified boundary box.
Such movements as rotate, relocate,
stretch, and scale occur as quickly as
you can move the mouse.

Real'SD offers a veritable host of
special built-in tools, such as Lathe.
Fence, and Tube, that all work to create
extruded or molded objects in 3-D as
fast as you can draw them in 2-D. If the
tri-view refresh rale starts to bog down
as your model becomes more compli-
cated, there are controls that allow vou

to choose whether you want all of the

windows to auto-refresh after each
movement or just the one in which you
are currently working.

The same goes for the objects within
the windows. You can select auto-re-
fresh for just the object currently under
scrutiny — from its immediate parent
ondown. You can even set it up so dial
only the component you are currently
moving will be constantly redrawn. If
all this still is not enough to speed
things up or clarify the scene for you,

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(hen you can also hide objects by name
from the hierarchy.

Glass Watermelons

Through a variety of controls, you can
whip up just about any material or
texture that you can imagine. With the
material creation requester's sliders,
you can control various aspects of the
physical properties of light on the
surface of an object. The program also
lets you map pictures and textures — in-
cluding a rippling-water effect called
bump mapping — onto surfaces.

Using a set of "Boolean logical oper-
ations" (a complicated term lor a cook-
ie cutter), you can quickly and easily
create intricate objects. It's like having
a tool set made out of thin air: If you
need a drill or a scoop or a saw, you
just make one, use it, and then toss it
out. You can overlap any two objects in
space and then combine them in one
of six ways to produce a new object.

If you link objects with the AND
function, only the parts of the original
two objects that were overlapping will
remain alter the operation is complete.
If you use the AND NOT function, the
tool or object will leave a hole of its
own shape in the object it intersects —
similar to the way a cookie cutter
works. EOR, the opposite of AND,
leaves only the parts that did not over-
lap in space. DIVIDE behaves the same
way as AND NOT, except that you get
to keep the cookie, too.

The remaining two functions (called
AND WITH PAINT and AND NOT
WITH PAINT) behave the same way as
AND and AND NOT, with the slight
difference that the attributes of [he tool
that vou used to cut are left on die
surface of the resulting object. This
feature intrigues me because ii is one
of those things from the realm of imag-
ination thai you cannot create in reali-
ty. What this means is that, for exam-
ple, you can cut tiger-stripe holes in a
watermelon or glass-lined scoops out of
a piece of wood or carpet.

The light sources in Real'SD are
superb. By placing a lamp in a lube
and then aiming the tube at mv model.
I created a spotlight. I agree witfi the
philosophy in use here; this light
source is like a filament around which
you place some sort or opaque object
to make lamps.

Real3D"s Wireframe mode provides a
perspective through-the-camera point
of view of a model or scene. With it,
you can manipulate a series of controls
to move your point of view around — al-
most in real time — for proper framing

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AMIGA IMAt;t BY MARK SWAIN

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How to give your animation ex-ci-ta-tion ?

Here's some
advice from the experts.

®hai makes an animation successful? What is it that makes you sit
I up and take notice when one cartoon starts to roll but scuds you
I drilling off (o dreamland when the sequel comes around?
f To be successful, your animation must be clear — in both pur-
pose and execution. It's also got to be believable. Exaggeration
aside, you must take into account the rules of physics when produc-
ing an animation. Further, your animation should have personality; tiny
characteristics arc key. But th-th-th-that's not all, folks! Sometimes, a touch of raz-
zle-dazzle is in order (see opposite page).

We asked a group of professional animators to share some of the techniques they
use in their work. While these techniques are basic, diey are not necessarily obvious.
They can, however, make a tremendous difference in the impact of your animation.
Although the tips these experts provide may be exemplified in terms of a particular
program, these pointers can apply to '2-D and 3-D animation alike, so everyone
can benefit.

So now, without further ado., .let's get on with the show!

CLARITY IS KEY

BY ERIC DANIELS

As an animator, the most heinous crime you can commit is to bore your audience.
You've got to grab them by the eyeballs and make them want to watch your ani-
mation! The best way lo get and hold people's attention is to clearly communicate
an entertaining idea. Here is a four-point plan for doing just that

Creole definite diameters: Know who your characters are and make them known
early to your audience. Stereotypes can help communicate personality quickly.
Your audience must have a set of expectations built up about the character, which
you can then follow or break depending on your mood. This goes for inanimate
objects as well as characters. If you are animating a spaceship or a car, let the au-
dience see it and become familiar with its shape before doing anything fancy with it.

Keep your story simple: Don't try to animate a Dostoevsky novel; simple ideas make
the best animations. One of my favorite short animated films, called Sysiphus.
depicted nothing more than a man pushing a rock up a hill. What made the film

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special was the beautiful simplicity of the idea and the
skill with which the animator portrayed it. The more
complicated ihc idea, the more the audience will want
to wander away.

Stage clearly: This is where your story-telling abilities
get tested. You have to break the action down into pos-
es, all of which advance the action. Strong posing is a
mysterious art, but there are a few rules: Try to create
strong silhouettes, with important objects or gestures
held away from the body, surrounded by "clear air."
Don't clutter your story with too many poses; use just
enough to convey the idea clearly.

Use the character's whole body with every motion,
and try to caricature attitudes that the audience is fa-
miliar with. For sadness, throw the head forward into
the hands and slump the shoulders forward. For pride,
arch the back until the chest swells mil like a sail. Isolate

the important motions and objects, and make them fill
the screen if possible.

Keej> the tempo interesting: If you introduced new pos-
es at exactly one-second intervals, it would noi matter
how interesting they were; the animation would be life-
less. You must break up the timing into fast-slow-fast
sections, with an eve toward what the character is
thinking.

If you want a mischievous character to have a brain-
storm, you might show him rubbing his chin slowly
while looking skyward. Then, vou might slow 1 his hand
to a complete stop for a second, and make his eyes
widen as the idea formulates. Then, he might have a
sudden look of anticipation and switch to a delighted
expression with his linger raised. Willi him looking
into the camera, his "Eureka" expression might slowly
change to a devilish one, after which he might zip

Figure 1. A brainstorm brews

Figure 2. Hey.

Figure 3. Uh-oh

Figure 4. Eureka!

Figure 5. A devilish look

Figure 6. Ready, set.

Figures 1-7 show the key
frames of this se-
quence. Figure
8 shows you
various
options
for laying out
the animation while
keeping the pace varied.

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quickly ofl' screen. In even - case, the speed of the
motion helps to communicate what the character is
thinking.

So remember, clarity is essential in communicating
your ideas and in making your animation succeed.

Eric Daniels, a traditional animator for 13 years, iuis worked
on such feature films as 'An American Tail" ami "The Res-
cuers Down Under," and he did all the animation on Disney's
Roger Rabbit game for the Amiga. He currently works for
Boer Animation in Hollywood.

EASY EASES

BY KELLY DAY

Aside lioin good story-telling and image composition,
I think one ol the most important aspects of good an-
imation is accurate easing in and easing out. Unfortu-
nately, most computer animation to date has over-
looked this phenomenon. I think this is largely due to
the analytical "one-ihing-at-a-time" nature of most
computers, llui we smart people who own Amigas al-
ready know the value of doing more than one thing
at a time (multitasking), so here is a tip for how to get
good "eases" in computer animation.

Several 3-D and 2-D animation packages for the
Amiga arc able to perform in-betweening — that is, tak-
ing two keyframes that you provide and drawing tran-
sition tranies between them. Rarely, however, do such
programs provide a good method for accurately accel-
erating between key poses. It's as though things in the
computer world had only two states of being — stopped
and full-speed movement — with no smooth transitions
between the two.

In the real world, that is not the case. Except lot-
clocks, not many things move at a constant rate of
speed. When you lift your arm from your side, for in-
stance, it starts out slowly, gains speed, and then rapid-
ly slows down before stopping or changing direction.

Here is a technique that I use to adjust tweens and
make the motion look more natural. While I do this
mostly with Sculpt-Animate 41) (Byte by Byte), you
should be able to apply it to any program that gener-
ates only precise, even in-betweens for key-frame-type
animation.

What 1 do is save off two key frames that I want to
'tween (see Figure 0), and then load them into a sec-

ond, multitasked Sculpt environment. There, I set up
more in-between frames than I will actually need. Then
1 generate only some of the new key frames between
them — not at regular intervals. I skip a few frames
progressively. For instance, if I wanted to have a car
accelerate forward and then stop, all in ten frames, I
might actually design the sequence in the second
program to generate 20 frames between my starting
and ending points, for a total of 22. Then I'd have
the program generate new key frames for frames 2, 4,
7, 11, 15, 18, 20, and 21.

It helps if you can visualize the frames getting fur-
ther apart and then closer together, so sometimes I ac-
tually draw little hash marks on my monitor with a
fine-point Dry-Erase (erasable) marker. The marks
look something like this:

I ! I i I I ! I I I I

This helps me get a feel for how an object is going
to move. In Sculpt 4D's Keyframe Fake mode, I draw
these lines on the glass right over the key frames so that
I can look below and see exactly which frames I need
to generate (see Figure 10).

Once I have the ten new key scenes I need, I go back
to my original animation anci insert them all in succes-
sion between the original two by renaming them (see
Figure 1 1). Now what I have is a key-frame animation
where all ten in-between frames are key frames. The re-
sult is that instead of an even stop-go-stop animation,
the car accelerates and decelerates — -just like real life!

Kelly Day is Computer Animation Director for Walt Disney
'Television. He was the leader of the crusade to introduce. Ami-
gas to the company. »-

Figure 9. In the first Sculpt environment,
choose two key frames to save.

Figure 10. Generate your in-betweens in
the second Sculpt program. Drawing
hash marks (here in blue) on the monitor
can help with timing.

Figure 11. Back In the first Sculpt envi-
ronment, insert the new frames.

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GIVE IT PERSONALITY

BY STEVE SEGAL

It's easy to create an animation on the Amiga. If you
use Deluxe Pain I III (Electronic Arts), you can just move
the mouse around and voila — instant animation! But
to connect with an audience, you must give your ani-
mation personality. That does not mean your character
must be a person or an animal; anything can move with
personality — even typography.

There are lots of ways you can give an animation per-
sonality. Here are a few things to consider:

Spued: How fast an object enters a scene a Heels how
we react to it. Fast-moving objects denote youth, ener-
gy, excitement. Slow motion, on the other hand, im-
plies old age, stateliness, or heaviness.

Squash arid stretch: An age-old animation convention,
thesquash-and-sneicli principle says thai when a mov-
ing object makes contact with a surface that stops it
short, the object shrinks in the direction it was moving
and expands in the other directions. .As an example, a
bouncing ball gets shorter and fatter when it hits the
floor. Keep in mind, though, thai the volume of the ob-
ject should stay constant al all times.

Anticipation: When you throw a punch, you draw
your arm back so you can pack more power. This is an-
ticipation in action. In animation, you can use this
principle to direct your audience and make the action

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Figure 12. Personality
helps AFTRE to become
AFTER.

clearer. When a character prepares to run to the left,
he should first rear to the right. This makes it easier
to realize what is happening, especially when he runs
o IT quickly.

Fallow-through: [list as lollow-thmugh helps vour ten-
nis swing, it can benefit your animations. The idea is
to go past your destination point and then pull back.
For example, if a car screeches on its brakes in an at-
tempt to stop, the top of the car will keep going for-
ward a little bit and then move back. The faster the ac-
tion is, the more pronounced the follow-through
should be.

Anthropomorphism: Animation can and often does
bring inanimate objects to life. Yott can add life to a car,
for instance, with something as simple as a funny
sound — or by turning its headlights into eyes and die
grillwork into a mouth. Don't go overboard with this
technique, however; there should be some reason why
an object comes to life — even if only for gag purposes.

Exaggeration: If Popcye flexed his arm and a muscle
of ordinary size popped up. boy would we be disap-
pointed. Why do you think Arnold Schwarzenegger is
so popular? He's bigger than life! Don'l stick In exag-
geralingjust characters, though — exaggerate their ac-
tions, too. A limning character should take bigger steps
and jump higher than humanly possible.

Overlapping action: When a character moves or
comes to rest, not all parts of him move al the same
time. For example if a rabbit turns his head, the tips
of his ears should stall moving after his head starts,
and stop after his head stops.

Ignore all rules: As long as you consider the possibil-
ities inherent in these techniques, feel free not to use
them if the animation works better without them. .Ani-
mation is, after all. a medium of creativity.

The Application

To demonstrate some of these principles, let's consider
a before-and-after example. In the first instance, we'll
have all the letters in the word BEFORE move onto the
screen at a constant speed and then stop in the center.
Now this is about the most boring presentation imag-
inable. Although you could make it more impressive by
adding some flips, spins, and highlights, it still would
not have personality. Sometimes dazzle is what the
client wants and expects from computers, and I'm a
sucker for it myself. But it can get tiring after a while,
and it's not likely to carry an animation by itself.

In the revised presentation, the word AFTER starts
at the left of the screen and zips to the center. On the
approach, the letters are skewed to look streamlined,
with the top bent to the right. When the word jerks to
a halt, the tops of the letters keep going as a follow-
through, but then bounce back. You can add some
choreography by having the letters enter at different
times, and even some humor by making one letter late
and having it run to catch up with the others. This is
one example of anthropomorphism. Another is mv de-

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cision to transpose the last two letters (this gives the
spelling AFFRE), so that the R can use its legs to kick
the E. While the E is (lipping overhead, the R runs to
lake its place. When the V. lands, it squashes and then
settles back to its original shape.

The accompanying stoiyboard (Figure 1 2) shows the
key elements of the AFTER sequence. This example is
just a simple introduction of letters, but by adding
some humor and taking advantage of some of the pos-
sibilities of animation, the action is more memorable.

Starting Tips

Once you have created a character or object that you
want to animate, try to determine its weight and mass
and imagine how these factors will affect its movement.
A rubber ball and a bowling ball react completely dif-
ferently, so you must decide what kind of material the
object is made of before you move it. Also, timing is
critical, but very difficult to perfect, I often use a stop-
watch to try to create the action in my mind. While you
are working, don't be afraid to act out the motion of

your characters — and don't be embarrassed to make
sound effects with your mouth.

It is a good idea to work as roughly as possible at
first, so you can keep the motion in your mind and not
worry about details. I draw very quickly in DeluxcTaint
III to get the rough shape of the character; then I draw
over my roughs in another color. In that way, I can use
the Stencil option to lock the new color in and then
clear all the frames to get rid of the rough drawings.
With Disney Animation Studio, I insert a blank frame
after the rough one, draw the clcaned-up version, and
then delete the rough frame.

Finally, studying tapes of animation will help you ap-
preciate the imagination and expertise that has gone
into those wonderful works of art. Once you pick up
on some ideas, you will be able to apply them to your
Own epics.

.V, ;'i Segal originalh became famous in (he Amiga anmnu-
nily for his "Dunce of the Stumbters" animation. He has also
done animation fur ABC's "Into the Night with Rick Dees."

SHOCK THERAPY

BY MARK SWAIN

You've seen them on television: animated electric bolts
that blast onto the screen, etching and singeing —
sparking life into still graphics and titles. These effects
are not difficult to produce on your Amiga. All you
need are a paint-and-aiiimation program and some
imagination.

To set up for these effects, start vour software in any
resolution — I tend to use lo-res interlace. (For the pur-
poses of illustration, I will reference Dehixef'aint III.)
Create a palletc containing a dark base color, a lighter
version of the base color, and white. For electric effects,
use dark blue for the base, light blue for the highlight,
and white for the hot electric flashes. Other color com-
binations produce different effects: using shades of or-
ange, for instance, creates fiery sparks. For a plasma or
ray-gun blast, try a combination of purple and green,
with white for the tips.

To create an electrified title sequence, begin by
choosing a large font with which to make a template
for your effects. Using a color that is not in your effects
palette, type in your title (if the text is not large
enough, grab it as y brush and resize it), and place it
where you want it on the screen. Then create ten
frames.

Now that your template is in place, click on the base
color you defined for your effects. Then select the
smallest (single-pixel) brush and the continuous free-
hand-drawing tool. (You can also use the smallest
square brash for the base color and the single-pixel
brush for the highlight colors.) Jiggling the mouse
slightly, trace through the letters with a continuous
stroke, giving the appearance of random electricity (see
Figure Ei ';.

When you finish with frame 1, advance to each of
the following frames and repeat the process. Make

Figure 13. Trace through
the template with the base
color (top). Then remove
the template and add the
highlight color. Finally, use
white either to trace the
whole title or to create
power surges.

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your bolts random, but try not to make drastic changes ing through the text. To get that result, first deter-
from frame to frame. In other words, if you have a mine a path that the surge will follow. For example,
large Hare or electric branch in one frame, it should in the word "Therapy," the surge would crawl down
not suddenly vanish in the next, bin move or change the 1, over to and through the center of the H, and

then through the other
letters. Find your start-
ing location and begin
to draw the white surge
as you did with the oth-
er colors. Once you've
created a short surge,
simply advance to the
next frame (by pres-
sing the 2 key) while
you are drawing. In the
following frames, con-
tinue the surge on its
path by drawing and
advancing to the next
frame. It is best to keep
the surge lengths ap-
proximately the same.
Once the surge reaches
the end of a word or ti-
tle, you can repeat the
process to add two or

slowly throughout the

following frames,

With all ten frames
traced using the base
color, create a stencil
that locks all of the col-
ors but that of the text
template. With the sten-
cil on, clear the (rallies
to remove the template.

Now, using the base-
color as a guide instead
of the template, select
the highlight color and
trace over the top, leav-
ing some of the base col-
or visible. While von ale
drawing, jusl wiggle the
mouse as before.

The final step is to
add the white heat. You
can do this in one of two
ways. The first is simply to trace the letters as
before, this time using white. The result of this option
is that all three colors are interwoven togedier. The sec-
ond method gives the effect of electrical surges streak-

It may sound
too simple to work, but
you will catch yourself

listening for

the thunder when you

run the sequence!

Figure 14. Adding effects to
an existing graphic.

[luce more surges to the animation.

If yon want to add electric effects to an existing title
or graphic, you can use a similar approach, 'lb finish
a title with crawling electric shocks, clone the original
screen as before to produce 1 frames. With the word
Shock in Figure 14 as an example, use dark blue to
draw the short electric shocks on the left sides of the S
in the first frame. Then advance to the next frame
while continuing to draw. It is best to keep the path
short, limiting the shock's movement to one curve or
surface. Make the shock grow 7 larger as it travels around
the graphic, and then have it shrivel back when it
reaches the end.

Witli the base color completed, add the highlight
color to each frame. The final step is to add a white tip
to the front of the shock. If you want, you can add
surges, but beware of cluttering the graphic. The final
animation should have several shocks spaced evenly
throughout the graphic.

What's an electric effect without a lew lightning
flashes"' You can add lightning to any of the above ex-
amples, or to other animations where they would fit in.
Simply find the spot where you would like the flash to
occur, and select the Add Frame command from
DPaint's Animation menu. Next, select the Filled Box
tool and the color white, and fill the entire screen with
a white box. Then skip two frames ahead in the ani-
mation, and do (he same thing. It may sound loo sim-
ple to work, but you will catch yourselflistening for the
thunder when you run the sequence! ■

Mark Swain is a California-based freelance writer who dors
video post production and computer animation. He has shown
work in the Siggmph Electronic Theater '90 mid the 3rd Ani-
mation Celebration.

28 October 1 991

"^sSMW

These tips on 2-D morphing techniques may not make you rich,

but they will certainly add a lot more pleasure

to your animation efforts.

^m By Tracy Sabin

ike (he dream of medieval alchemists, the whole idea of metamorphosis is intriguing.
While some of those old-timers were ill it just for the dough — a "gel-rich-quick" scheme
to walk away with the gold when the experiments were over — others had more lofty
^^mmmmm intentions. They were fascinated by the very idea that all matter might essentially
be composed of one substance that appears in different forms, and that it should be pos-
sible by physical treatment to cause one form to change into another. They weren't talking about
DNA molecules, either; no, they were dealing with some pretty heavy-duty
natural magic.

We animators can also feel our imaginations stirring when one
considers the possibilities attached to taking images and trans-
forming them into something entirely different from one scene
to another. That's what "morphing" — specifically 2-D hand-
drawn (mouse-drawn, really) moiphing — is all about.

Now, there are more and more Amiga programs that
perform morphing automatically, so why would any-
one want to draw a morph by hand? But that's like
saying the goal of alchemy was only to turn base met-
als into gold, period. Those medieval wizards and
magicians were up to a lot more than just that.

Besides, most ol the programs that morph auto-
matically are :i-L> programs. If you are interested in
2-D morphing, a 3-D program is not the optimal
tool. Further, most 2-D programs that have a morph
function can deal only with simple shapes. Even if
a practical program did exist that could automati-
cally morph between two complex, unrelated IFF im-
ages, there are compelling aesthetic reasons whv vou
might want to draw the morph frame by frame. It's
simply not true that "a morph is just a morph is just a
morph ..."

A Morph by Any Other Name...

The fact is that there are myriad ways to morph from one image
to another. Consider my elephant-into-a-hor.se example, several

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Frames of which run along die bottom of the pages of
this article. Instead of the rougher, but more creative
(and fun) lraiiMiinn.il frames llial I morphcd hv hand,
a program thai morphs automatically would deal with
these images as lines or shapes, and it would create a
nice, smooth, but quite mechanical metamorphosis.

There's more than one way to turn an elephant into a
horse, however. For instance, you could consider the fact
that the two animals share common characteristics and
morph individual both parts from one animal to the oth-
er. The eye could remain intact and travel to its new rest-
ing place, the legs of the elephant could elongate and
narrow, and so on. Or, perhaps you would like to plav
with shapes, instead. You could transform the bodv parts
into balloons. The head, each leg, the tail, and the body
could all become balloons. 1 he balloons then might float
around and transform back into body parts. Maybe you
would like to add more animation to the morph: Instead
of balloons, you could have butterflies that fly around be-
fore they transform into the new image.

You could even combine a morph into (he action of
a scene. The elephant starts walking, runs into a wall
but continues walking, while at the same time slowly
squashing into a big lumpy wad. When the wad is fi-
nally a big amorphous mess, it could start walking back
away from the wall, becoming the horse in the process,
The point is not simply that the possibilities are end-
less, hut ili.it ,1 morph can have some meaning. Vint can
use a morph not only for its visual appeal, but also to
help tell vour stoty. An elephant that morphs in a me-
chanical way into a horse has a rlillcrent meaning than
an elephant that turns into butterflies that fly off and
transform into a horse.

Morphing: Means and Methods

Well, if our "elephorse" example got you interested in
trying 2-D morphing, what kind of animation program
should von look lor? There are two basic requirements.
First, the program must let you move from frame to

frame, backward and forward, with ease. Second, it
would he helpful if it allowed you to see previous and
subsequent frames as you draw — the so-called "onion-
skin" effect. The Disney Animation Studio ($ 1 7'.), Walt
Disney Computer Software) is a good choice because it
fulfills both requirements. You can also work with
DeluxePaint III ($149.95, Electronic Arts), although
the program docs not allow von to see previous ana 1
subsequent frames. (The soon-to-be released Deluxe-
Paint IV supposedly will include ait onion-skin effect.)
With ideas in mind, and software in hand, just how-
does one go about morphing"- The three approaches
described below should put you on the right track.

Standard Key-Frame Morphing

Key-frame morphing begins with the creation of such
key frames as the elephant and horse discussed above.
For the purposes of illustration, let's use simpler key
frames. The left half of figure 1 shows two key frames.
a circle and a square, both visible on the same screen.
In the Disney Animation Studio, the frames appear in
different shades of gray, becoming more faint the fur-
ther they are from the current frame. If you have sev-
eral key frames loaded, you may want to use the bracket
key ([) to eliminate from view all but the two key frames
you arc currently working on. If von are using a pro-
gram such as DeluxePaint III that does not provide an
onion-skin effect, von will need to insert a blank frame
between your key frames and then skip back and forth
between the two key frames to determine how to draw
vour morph.

Using your key frames as a guide, draw a morph
frame that strikes a middle ground between the two
key-frame shapes. It might look like a square with round-
ed corners (the right hail' of Figure 1). If you are using
the Disney Animation Studio, you need to place your
morph drawing in its proper position between the two
key frames. Because the onion-skin images are the
frames immediately preceding the current frame, vour

30 October 1991

Imaaine

ANIMi^TION

Imagine animation. It's easy if you try
(and if you have a little help from your friends!)

nimation is not what John Lennon had in
mind when he sang his ballad "Imagine." It
is, however, what Amiga users have in mind
when they enter the Stage Editor in Impulse's powerful
3-D program of the same name. Too often, though, the
objectives of would-be animators appear as elusive as
Lennon' s vision. That's because Imagines animation
module can be difficult to grasp, and the program's
documentation is of little help.

To help you harness Imagine's elusive animation
power, I've worked up an exercise thai demonstrates
how to use some of its features. The project employs
techniques for rotating objects, moving objects on
paths, creating spotlights, following objects with both
lights and camera, and even changing (morphing) one
object into another.

The finished animation contains a revolving pyra-
mid that changes colors (from red to blue, green, yel-
low, and then back to red). The focus is on a gold ro-
tating object illuminated by a spotlight as it circles the
pyramid.

The project takes about an hour to create, but ren-
dering time varies according to the speed of your com-
puter. To hasten the production, I have indicated with
square brackets where you can use default function keys
and hot-key combinations. For example, [Fl] is the Fl
key and [A-4] is the Right Amiga key plus the 4 key
(press both together). Keep in mind that numbers or

By Steven Blaize

names entered into a field must be followed by the En-

tcr key, or the daia will not be retained. ►

AmigaWorid 33

IMAGINE

This tutorial is designed to run on a 1MB machine
with one floppy disk. If you plan to work further with
3-D animation, however, I recommend yon add a hard
disk to your system.

Don't Forget the Plans

Before you start the program, you should have a good
idea of what you would like to do with your animation.
This planning step cannot be overemphasized. Even

a storyboard repre-
senting key frames
with stick figures
can point up poten-
tial problems. Be-
cause 1 outlined
above the concept
for this project, you
can proceed to load
Imagine (all of the
references in this
article are to ver-
sion 1.1).

Select Project-
New (A-N] from the
menu; then indicate
which disk drive you
want to work from
and enter MY3D for
die name of the pro-
ject. Imagine will
automatically create
drawers for storing
pictures, objects,
and animations. In
Imagine, renderings are controlled with subprojecis,
which let you render an animation at one resolution for
testing, and at another for production.

Create a subproject by clicking on Nov (your pro-
ject's disk and drawer should be indicated). Then type
First requester into the file box and press Enicr; the
parameters for the Rendering Subproject screen will
appear (Figure 1). Click on Presets, and then choose
Laced HAM Quarterscreen for this project; the rest of

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the defaults are Fine. This selection is based on time
and space requirements. Click OK.

The Cast of Characters

The Detail Editor, one of three editors in Imagine used
to create objects for animation, lets you set the specific
surface characteristics (attributes) of each object. If you
are unfamiliar with object creation, read each step care-
fully and examine other references (see sidebar).

Use the menu's Editor-Detail [A-2] to enter the ed-
itor. The first object will be the gold orbiter. Select
Futictions-Add-Primitive from the menu, and click on
Sphere. Change Radius to 30, Circle sections to 5, and
Vertical sections to 2; then click OK. You should notice
that this ten-sided object looks nothing like a sphere.
Don't be afraid to change the numbers in these re-
questers to obtain unusual shapes.

The menu's Pick/Setcct-Pick Select [Fl] will pick the
object so you can change the color of the surface. Then
select Object-Attributes [F7], which brings up the At-
tributes requester. This provides the controls to set a
multitude of combinations for your objects. These at-
tributes interact with each other to provide infinite con-
trol and you may need to experiment to gain a com-
plete understanding. For now, just enter the values
indicated for the specific attributes.

You set a value by first clicking on a specific box; then
either enter numbers or move the sliders. Values on the
top left can be from to 255 for each of Red, Green,
and Blue, providing a selection of 1 6.7 million colors.
The approximate color is indicated in the box on the
lop right.

To enter the attributes for gold, click on the follow-
ing boxes one at a time and enter the indicated values.
Color: Red 255, Green I80, and Blue 75 sets the sur-
face color to a gold tone. Specular: Red 255, Green
250, and Blue 220 produces a natural gold tone high-
light. Dithering: use Value 50 to help blend the colors.
Hardness: Value 190 gives a medium-size highlight
spot. Shinincss: Value 255 makes the surface veiy slick.
The Index of Refraction at 1.75 enhances the metallic
look when ray-traced. Phong should not be checked.
When you finish, click OK.

Save your object to the disk with Object-Save [A-S]
from the menu. Click on Disks, select your clisk, the
drawer named MY3D.IMP, and the objects drawer. En-
ter Sphere in the filename requester and click OK. Us-
ing the menu's Objects-Cut [A-K] will clear the work
space.

The objects saved to disk are not specific to this pro-
ject. As you create objects, save them into a library,
which you can then use for other animations.

Now for the next actor, the first pyramid. Again, use
Functions- Add-Primitive, click on Cone, change Circle
Sections to 4, and click on OK. Now choose Pick/Select-
Pick Select [Fl] and then Object-Attributes [F7]. This
time you will not need to change as many items.
Change Color to Red 255, Green 0, Blue 0; the Spec-
ular to Red 255, Green 255, Blue 255; Hardness to Val-
ue 255; and Shiftiness to Value 255. Remove the check
from Phong and click OK. Again, save the object with
Object-Save [A-S], call it Red and click OK.

With the object still picked, select Object-Attributes
[F7J, click on Color and change Red to 0, Green to 255,
and Blue to 0. Also click on each box in the first two
columns and click OK. This will keep everything the

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same except that you just changed the surface color
from red to green. Select Object-Save [A-S], enter
Green and click OK. Repeat this procedure, but change
Color to Red 0, Green 0, Blue 255, and save as Blue
for the blue pyramid. Von make the yellow pyramid by
changing the Color to Red 255, Green 255, and Blue
0. Save this object as Yellow. These four objects will be
used to morph the pyramid from one color to the next.
Select Object-Cut [A-Kj to clear your work area.

The last object is the floor, which is essential because
we want lo see the spotlight as it follows the gold object.
If the lloor is not in the scene, the light continues into
an empty space. Select Function-Add-Ground, Pick/Se-
lect-Pick Select [Fl], and then Object-Attributes [F7].
Set the floor to a medium blue finish by clicking on
Color and entering Red 0, Green 0, Blue 150; set Spec-
ular at Red 0, Green 0, Blue 255, and Hardness at Val-
ue 255. Remember to click on the specific box before
entering the values. Save the object with Object-Save
[A-S] and call it Ground. Use the menu to select Pro-
ject-Stage, and click Yes to quit the Detail Editor.

Now for the Action

The Stage Editor is for creating animation movement
and viewing perspective. It has the same types of or-
thogonal views: Top, Front. Right, and Perspective. Se-
lect Display-Camera View and Display-Coordinates.
The Perspective window now shows the viewer's per-
spective and cursor positions in the top righi-hand cor-
ner. Briefly, positions in this 3-D space are defined by
coordinates on the x, y and z axes. The x axis runs side
to side when viewed from ihc front. The y axis extends

front to back when seen from the top, while the z axis
is vertical when viewed from the front or right.

The center of litis space is point 0, 0, 0. Negative val-
ues are to the left (x axis), the front (y axis), or below
(z axis) the center point. The coordinates displayed at
the upper right indicate your pointer position on the
x, y, and z axes. Zoom in or out with Display-Zoom Out
[A-O] and Displav-Zoom In [A-I] at any time.

Clicking on a title bar (TOP, FRONT RIGHT, or
PERSP) will provide a full-screen view. Click on the bar
again lo return to the quad view mode.

First, you will create the number of animation frames.
You can change this number at any time, but you will
need to make fewer adjustments if you set this number
fust. This is where planning helps. Mine determined
that 28 frames would fit on the disk and provide suffi-
ciently smooth motion. Select Object-Action [A-A], die
Action Screen, and enter 29 in the Highest Frame # re-
quester. One extra frame will be used by some of the
Imagine controls. Click on Done, and you will be back
to the Stage views. Load the first object into the Stage
by selecting Object-Load [A-L], Now select Red and
then click OK.

Next, create the path for the gold object to orbit the
pyramid with Object-Add-Closed Path from the menu
and click OK. Enter I*ath for a filename in the File
requester. This object is used only to create movement
and is not visible. A few changes are needed, so use
Piek/Select-Pick Select [Fl J to pick the path for modi-
fication. If you clicked anywhere before picking die
path, use Pick/Select-Find [A-F], click on Path, and then
press F 1 . *-

Help!

Impulse has an outstanding reputation
for quality products such as Turbo Sil-
ver, Imagine, and Firecracker. To date,
however, documentation and support
have been questionable. Fortunately,
Imagine has a good deal of after-mar-
ket support. Below you will find some
products and groups that can help.

Support Group

Turbo-Sig (international support
group for 3-D graphics and anima-
tion; membership includes monthly
newsletter)

1 3-1 1 Ocean Ave., Suite 349

Santa Monica, CA 90401

213/398-7649

Books

The Imagine Companion

by David Duberman, author of the

original Turbo Silver documentation
Motion Blur Publishing
915A Stambaugh St.
Redwood City, CA 94063

Software

Hot Key Authority (configuration files

and utilities)
by Victor Osaka and Tim Donley
3-D Specialty Catalog
1341 Ocean Ave., Suite 349
Sania Monica, CA 90401
213/398-7649

The Buddy System (on-line help

system)
Help Disk

6671 W Indiantown Rd., Suite 56360
Jupiter, FL 33458
407/694-1756

Instructional Videotapes

Imagine the Possibilities

by Rick Rodriguez, author of the

Imagine manuals
Impulse

6870 Shingle Creek Pfcwy., Suite 112
Minneapolis, MN 55430
612/566-0221

Imagine - A Guided Tour

by RGB Images

Centaur Software

PO Box 4400

Redondo Beach, CA 90260

213/542-2226

AmigaiVorld 35

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Scale the path larger by first pressing S and drag-
ging the mouse slowly up to the right until I he box is
slightly largei- [ban the pyramid when viewed from the
to]). I be bounding box approximates the size <>i an
object. Any object can be scaled [Sj, moved [M] or ro-
tated [R] interactively in ibis editor. Press the space bar
when satisfied. Press M to move the axis of the path
to the center of the pyramid in either front or righl
views. Press the space bar to retain the new position.

Do not be con-
cerned about exact
placement, for you
can scale or move
this path at anytime
you wish. While
vou still have the
YOU Can SCale R»* picked, choose

Mode-Edit Path [A-
2], The path now
has three axes, the
two on the path be-
iug control axes.
Click on the axis to
the far right of
your screen in the
right view, press M
to move, and drag it
down so that it is
just above the bot-
tom of the pyramid.
Press the space bar
to keep the position.
Now click on the
left axis, press M.
move it up slightly, and press the space bar. Use Mode-
Pick Croups [A- 1 ] after you are satisfied with your path.
Click Yes to save the path and then OK. The difference
between the two modes is that in Pick Group you are
scaling, moving or rotating the entire object, while in
Edit Path vou are modifying the axes dial conlrol the
path's slope, angle and pitch.

Use Object-I-oad [A-L] 10 add the Ground. Then
choose Pick/Select-Pick Select [Fl |, press M, and move

£±L

I M

Figure 2. The quad-view Stage Editor.

the ground down slightly in the front or right views so
that it is below the base of the pyramid.

Now add your lighting, first a fill light. L'se Objcct-
Add-Lighl Source, then press El to pick it. This time
you can move the object to a specific location with Ob-
ject-Transformation [AT]. The Transformation Re-
quester allows you to enter specific values for rotations,
sizes, and positions. Click on Position and enter -100,
-300, and 250 in (he respective x, y, and z boxes. This
places it in the left (negative x) foreground (negative
v) and slightly above the pyramid (positive /)■ Click on
Perform.

Now add another light — the follow spotlight. Using
the same procedure, enter Position 50, 0, 250, click Size
and change x to 20 and y to 80, click OK. The x value
sets the radius and the y sets the local length of your
spotlight. Spotlights begin at the point set by Position,
and will illuminate only objects that fall within the di-
ameter size of the light.

You can now add the last actor. Once again, use Ob-
ject-Load |A-t,| and select Sphere. Don'l worn' at this
point that the objects do not seem to be in position.
You will set this up in the Action Screen.

When you select Object-Action [A-A] to enter the
Action Screen, you'll see your list of objects on the left
side of the screen. The first two. Camera and Globals,
arc alwavs in the list and will exist in every frame of
the animation. Each object has six channels listed on
the righl side of the screen. The color bars indicate
timelines (frame counts) of the specific channel. The
frame numbers are along the top edge of the list of
objects. Click under the frame numbers. Your position
is the cross section of the red indicator on the frame
numbers and the one on the channel names. Use
these to select the proper frame and channel you wish
to modify. The scroll bar to the far right scrolls
through to the other objects. The buttons on the top
permit you to select die type of modification you will
make to a particular channel.

First, make the camera automatically point to the
gold object by clicking Delete and moving the pointer
to the Camera with the red indicators on Frame 1 and
the Align channel. Click once. II vou delete the wrong
channel, click the Undo button. Now click on Add,
move back lo the Camera Align channel, click once on
Frame I, move lo Frame 29 and click again. You
should gel a Specify "lype requester. Select Track to
Object, enter Sphere in the Object Name box, press
enter, and click OK. You should now have a long time-
line on the Camera's align channel. You can also ad-
just the local length of the camera lens. Click on Info
and then on the Camera Size channel al Frame 1.
change X to 600, press Enter and OK. You now have
a wider viewing angle.

Hie Global actor sets general (ambient) light, the
horizon, and colors above and below the horizon, as
well as adding star fields or an IFF for global re-
flectance. Click on the Global Actor channel, Frame I.
enter 40 in each of the Ambient color boxes, and click
OK. This helps to add general lighting.

When you enter different objects on the same chan-
nel, the\' will change front the first into the next and
lake the- transition frame count to make the change.
This is bow you will change the colors of the pyramid.
So click on the Cone Actor channel, change End
Frame to 1 , press Enter and OK. Click Add. click once »

36 October 1991

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on Cone Acior channel Frame 2, and then on Frame
8. Select Green from the objects, and change Transi-
tion frame count to 6. Repeat this tor Frames 9 to 15
using Blue, 16 to 22 for Yellow, and 23 to 29 for Red.
The one limitation is that you can do this morph only
if the objects have exactly the same number of points
and faces.

While you still have the Add button selected, add a
timeline on the Clone's F/X channel on Frames 2 to 29.
You will use the Rotate F/X, but other F/Xs provided
with Imagine produce even more stunning animations,
A file requester will default to your Imagine drawer. En-
ter Im_Effects in the Drawer box, press Enter, click on
Rotate and OK. To create one full rotation about the
vertical (Z) axis over 28 frames, set the Start Frame to
2. the End Frame to 29. an x next to the i. axis, and
Degrees to 360.0000. Click on OK.

Use the scroll bar on the far right to move down
your list of Objects until you see Lightsource and
Lightsource.l. The first light you added is called
Lightsource, and each subsequent one is numbered in
order. The first light is the fill light and the default val-
ues will work for this animation. Lightsource. 1 will be
the follow spotlight. Click the Info button, click l he Ac-
tor channel of Lightsource. 1, select Conical and Cast
Shadows, and change each Intensity value to 700.
Click OK.

A conical light begins at a single point and reaches
the radius (X size) at the focal length (V size). Using
the same method as for the Camera, you can make the
spotlight follow the gold object. Click Delete, select
Lightsource.l, Frame 1, and the Align channel. Click
Add and add a timeline in this same channel for
Frames 1 to 29. Click Track to Object and enter Sphere
in the Object Name box. Press Enter, then OK. 1 1' any
timeline is not the correct length, click on Info, then
click on the specific timeline and adjust the frame
numbers within the requesters.

Vim make the las! movement changes to make the
gold object (Sphere) rotate and follow the path around
the pyramid. Click Delete, move to the Sphere, Frame
1, and the Position channel and click. Click on Add,
and on the same channel add a line for Frames 1 to
29, select Follow- Path, enter Path for Path Name, press
Enter and OK. (Please note thai Imagine has controls
for acceleration and deceleration along a path, but
diesc are not covered here.)

For the last bit of variety, add another F/X timeline
for Frames 2 to 29, using the Rotate effect with default
values. Refer to the specific instructions above for
adding the F/X channel. This will make the object ro-
tate about its x axis as it orbits.

Click on Done and you will be returned to the Stage
Editor screen. The sphere should now be on the path,
with the camera focused on its central axis. Now- test
the animation in wireframe mode. Select Animate-
Make from the menu. A requester displays the Start,
Stop, and Step frame numbers. Change 29 to 28, and

then press Enter. The reason you use Frames I lo 28
is to work around an Imagine quirk. Closed Paths be-
gin and end at the same point. If you render every
frame, the animation will have the object on the path
in the same spot for both the first frame and the last.
A similar thing is done for the Rotate F/X. Imagine be-
gins the rotation in the very first cell and ends in the
original position. The eiTect starts in the second frame
and ends with one extra. This gives you the original po-
sition in the first frame and the correct ending position
in the next-to-last frame.

Use the Animate-Play Loop to view the test. The An-
imation Control requester allows you to slow the ani-
mation down or even to step through it frame by
frame. If the animation does not look like the design
concept, make notes of errors, go back to the Action
screen and review (he settings for each of the objects
with the above instructions in mind. When the wire-
frame animation looks correct, use Project-Save
Changes [A-S], then Project-Project Editor to exit the
Stage Editor.

Let's See It

It is now time for the computer lo work instead of you.
While in the Project Editor, click on Range in the mid-
dle of the screen, change the End number to 2S and
press Enter. The frame numbers should be highlight-
ed. Click on Make near the bottom of die screen. Select
Yes lo let Imagine create a temporary Movie file. Yes
for a looping movie, and Yes to Delete picture files.

The status of the render process is displayed at the
top of your screen. It is complete when the Cancel
requester disappears. Now there is time for a break.

When the Amiga finishes cranking out its calcula-
tions, click on Load. When the cursor returns, you are
ready for viewing. Click on Play Loop and use the Fl
to Fit) keys to speed up or slow down the animation
as it plays. Your spotlight will not have the shadow you
see in the illustration because shadows are generated
only when rendering in full ray-trace, which takes
longer to render. To get these shadows, render your
animation again, but change the subproject parame-
ters to Trace. You can either create a new subproject
or modify the parameters of the current one with the
Modify button.

Now go ahead and modify other things in the ani-
mation, saving new versions and rerendering to your
heart's content. .As you experiment, you will learn more
about the program and the types of things you like
best. Imagine offers infinitely more than we can cover
in one article, but there are many other resources you
can turn to. Your imagination is the only limit! ■

Steven Maize is owner of Creative Fire, a multimedia pre-
sentations company. He is an author, lecturer, and consultant
on Amiga and PC-DOS platforms, as well as the Assistant
Director of the Amiga V/dco-Giapliics Guild. Write to him c/o
AmigaWorld, SO Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458.

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IN 80

It took eons for our earth to evolve,

but with DehcxePaint III and a little imagination,

you can create your own world in considerably less time.

On the theoreti-
cal level, "world
building" is a
fascinating thought ex-
periment. Building
your own planet using
an Amiga, however, can
be an exciting practical
endeavor. While this ar-
ticle shows you how to
do it with Electronic
Arts' DeluxePaint 111, I
will also give von some
ideas that go beyond
mere technique to make
it more rewarding.

At the annual CON-
TACT conferences —
which bring together
prominent scientists,
artists, and science-fic-
tion writers — partici-
pants create a set of in-
teresting cosmologies!
parameters. Using scientific principles, they then evolve a planet
and biosphere wil bin those constraints. Disciplined world build-
ing is hard play, and I find the Amiga an ideal visual tool to aid
in such projects. For our experiment here, I will show you how
lo use DPaint's animation and painting features to create a plan-
et and set it spinning in space. (CONTACT'S address is 1412

rbtomic Ave. SE, Wash-
ington, DC 20003.)

In the
Beginning...

The first stage in con-
structing your planet
is to paint its surface
features on a map rep-
resenting both hemi-
spheres — as though
a globe were un-
wrapped onto a reel-
angle. The result is
much like a Mercator
projection (named for
the 16th-century Flem-
ish cartographer who
revolutionized early
navigation methods),
which renders the
planet on a rectangu-
lar 1 at i t u de-an d-longi-
tude grid, with the
navigational advantage ihai any straight line represents a con-
stant compass course. The problem with this type of map is that
it radically distorts land masses near the poles. (As countless
school children might attest, the ubiquitous classroom Mercator
projection of the world gives one the impression that Green-
land is larger than Africa and that Antarctica is shaped like a •

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long, wavy stripe.) This distorted map. however, is ideal
for our purpose of wrapping a brush to a Tilled circle.

In the finished animation of your spinning globe.
only one hemisphere will be visible at any given mo-
ment. To plan for this, make your map a rectangle oi'
two adjacent squares. Set DPaint's Prefs to FastFB and
Be Square. Select the Filled Rectangle tool and hold
down the Shift key while you drag out the box. This
constrains the box to the dimensions of a square. Pick
up the square as a brush and press SH1FDX to double
il horizontally. Then stamp il down on a cleared screen
and get ready to paint

You might want to make your first planet similar to
Earth, with oceans, continents, and islands. If you need
some ideas on the processes in nature thai shape such
a planet's features, do a little reading on planetary
geology and plate tectonics. On an active planet such
as our Earth, the same tectonic shifting of plates thai
produces earthquakes also builds mountains, as one
plate separates from or crumples into another over
millions of years.

Thus, mountain ranges do not occur as random
lumps, but as harmonious lines of relief that clarify the
dynamics of the crust. These mountains, in turn, form
barriers and channels to meteorological processes that
affect the landscape colors you choose. For example.
wind-driven clouds pile up on steep slopes (white and
brown), unload their rain in that region (green), and
may leave land beyond quite arid (tan and other).

Color Your World

There are any number of ways to paint the surface fea-
tures of the planet. Try this quick technique to give a
convincing appearance of contour and elevation with
natural transitions of colors. For best results, build a
range of 1(3 to 24 colors in the Palette requester and
use the Spread feature to create a smooth sequence of
gradation. An easy range to create is very light yellow-
brown at one end and dark brownish-green at the oth-
er. (See Figure I.)

Figure 1. The Initial map, showing pallette construction.

Fill the map with the darkest color in the range, and,
with the left mouse button, choose any other shade
within that range as the foreground color. Then, using
the right mouse button, choose the surrounding screen

color — a color outside of the range vou have made — as
a background. Make a half-inch round brush and press
FT) for Shade mode.

Painting in Dotted Freehand mode, vou can brighten
the map with one mouse button and darken it to the
base color with the other. If you will think of the lighter
colors as representing high elevation and the darkest
color as the ocean, you quickly begin to see convincing
contours appear. Use a very small brush for such final
details as river valleys, fjords, and islands (enlarging
and shrinking the brush with the + and - kevs).

If you do not want to shade an area all the way to
the darkest or lightest color, change the range settings
occasionally to control the effect of the Shade opera-
tion. Many artists forget that the range settings can be
adjusted again and again during a painting session to
control the elfect of the tools. You can use the Blend
tool to refine contours after they are roughed in with
Shade, and you can fill the darkest areas with blue to
turn them into oceans. In my illustrations, I've used a
more complex series of palette spreads to color land-
scape and give variation to terrain. You can make such
changes even after the painting is complete.

Make It Go 'Round

The left edge of the map must perfectly match the
right if it is to have continuity as a globe. This is easier
than it appears. Simply cut a one-inch vertical strip
from 'he right edge of the map with the right mouse
button, removing il from the background. Carefully
stamp il down at the left side of the map and use Blend
to smooth and adjust the resulting seam. Because they
are edges of the same cut. the new left and right sitles
of the map make a perfect match. When you are satis-
fied with your map, save il to disk.

For the next phase, vou need to make a couple of
measurements and place some markers. To mark the
middle of the map, use the Brush Selector to pick up
a full strip of the (op edge of the map. Press the h key
to halve thai brush and carefully stamp il directly above
the map, aligned with the left edge. Use the Straight
Line tool to make a mark above the middle of the map
for future reference. Turn on Coordinates from Prefs
and. using the Straight line tool, stretch a horizontal
line precisely from the left eclge of the map to the right
edge. Now, make a note of the x coordinate at the lop
of the screen and undo the line. Bring up the Move re-
quester from the Anim menu ami enter the map width
(262 in my example) in the Distance box under "X."
(You must use an even number for the width, or you
will see gaps in your animation.)

Exit the Move requester for the moment and pick up
the map — including a piece of the line you drew as a
halfway mark — as a brush. Clear the screen and go to
the Anim menu to set the number of frames. Ten
frames will do, but if you have enough RAM, 30 to 60
will make for a smoother animation.

Returning lo the main screen, you will be on frame
1 of the animation — a blank screen. Stamp the brush
down in the center of the screen to let die Move re-
quester locate it, then select Undo to remove the im-
age. Return to the Move requester, where the horizon-
tal movement of the map is already entered. Make sure
that the entry in the Count box equals the number of
frames in the AXIM, and click on Preview to verify thai
all is well. You should see the map. or a box represent-

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screen. Now select Draw, and DPaint will create the
AN1M frames.

Play the animation to verily that the map slides
smoothly across the screen. Eventually, yon will pick up
a square ANIMbrush to enclose that portion of the
screen occupied by the right half of the map as it ap-
pears in frame 1. Envision that brush as a window on
a hemisphere of the planet. Run the ANIM a lew times
and sec how the map slides uut of the imaginary win-
dow, leaving space behind. A second copy must fill this
space to provide continuity as the globe rotates. This
is why the left and right sides of the map must match.

Globe Trotting Made Perfect

You can use the Move requester to make a second copy
of the map follow the first (see Figure 2). Start the sec-
ond pass on frame 1. You mav need to shift the brush
handle with ALT-X. Carefully stamp the map bitish at
the left edge of the map that is showing in the frame,
click L T ndo to remove the image, and return to the
Move requester. L.'sing the sellings already in place,
choose Preview to confirm the motion and path. As
shown in Figure 3, the second map will join seamlessly
with the first and trail it across the screen. Select Draw
to complete this phase.

Return to frame 1 of the ANIM and select Anim
Brush Pickup from the Anim menu. The next sicp has
to be precise. You must cut out the right half of the map
with no background beyond the edge of the brush. Use
the midpoint mark for reference in starting at the up-
per-left corner of the brush, and drag the box over the
right half of the map. The lines of the cutout box must
be placed exactly on the edge ol the map — not even a
single pixel beyond. Release the mouse button to pick
tip the ANIMbrush. You will see the map advance
through the window of your ANIMbrush box, and, at
just the right moment, the second copy of the map will
appear and follow the other along.

Return to Frames in the Anim menu and select
Delete All. Clear the screen and select the Filled Circle
tool. Make sure you are in Solid mode in the Fill re-
quester and drag out a filled circle the size you want
the planet to be — a bit smaller than the height of the
map. Go back to the Anim menu, select Frames and re-
set the number to what you originally had ( l M) in my
example). You now have that number of frames con-
taining the blank circle.

Next, summon the Fill requester by pressing SHIFT-
Fand then select Wrap. Return to frame 1 of the ANIM,
hold down the Left Amiga key, and fill the circle. The
ANIMbrush will automatically advance wiih the .ANIM
frames. You can lake your hands off the mouse and key
board while DcluxePaint wraps the map window to each
ANIM frame.

Press the 4 key to play the ANIM in a continuous
loop and adjust the speed with the ( lursor-Up and Cur-
sor-Down keys. At this point, you can pick up the planet
as an ANIMbrush and save ii to disk. You can put the
planet into a "technoframe," as I have done in t he illus-
tration on the opening page of this article, or use the
Move requester to move it through space or to zoom
in and out. You can add the plane! to other animations,
or bring in 3-D or ray-traced spacecraft. ( I he same
ANIMbrush wrap technique is also useful for rotating
text effects, titling, and a host of other applications.)

You might also use the planet animation as part of
a larger project, including detail maps, landscapes, dio-
ramas, and paintings of alien life forms. With the help
of a sound digitizer, you could add alien animal sounds
or speech. Such a project can be as whimsical as vou
like, or it can be the core of a rigorous exercise in cre-
ative interdisciplinary plav. A family, class, or scout
troop can use a world-building project as a connecting
thread to explore astronomy, biology, geology, anthro-
pology, art, and physics. In fact, the Smithsonian In-
stitution recently granted the CONTACT organization
funding for just such a special curricular project at the
junior-high level.

The arts and the sciences link in powerful ways.
World building is fun and provides an example for
young students of how everything they learn inter-
relates. Further, as a world builder, you discover that
in older to build a great alien planet, you must first un-
derstand your own. ■

Joel Hagen is the author of. Amiga World's regular all-
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Figure 2. The move requester settings for the second pass.

Figure 3. A look at the second pass— from preview mode.

AmigaWorld 41

ccent on Audio

Music and sound can be just the spice to liven
up your multimedia presentation. Here's
some good advice about the 'utensils' and recipes'
you'll need to get the mix right.

By Geoffrey Williams

BRECHT WITHOUT WEIL? Lerner without Lowe? Johnny without Doc
Severenson? No way... it just wouldn't "sound" the samel

And if you're creating multimedia presentations without using sound or
music. . .well, it just isn't multimedia. While you raav have a good handle
on your graphics, text, animation, and video, if you neglect the potential
that sound and music offer for enhancing your
production, your show may turn out pretty flat.
Let's examine some tools and lips to help make
your multimedia presentations as pleasing to the
ear as they are to the eye. (For information about
contacting the developers of products mentioned in this
article, co?isidt the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Ad-
dresses" list on p. I IS.)

Digitize and Synchronize

Your Amiga does an excellent job of manipulating
and playing back digitized sounds. It accomplish-
es this through a process called "sampling." Sim-
ply put, the computer can "listen" to any sound
and turn it into digital Information — a series of
bytes it can store. This data is then led back
through a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), an
amplifier, and speakers to turn it into sound
again.

The lirst part of the process is performed with
the help of a sound sampler — or audio digitizer.
Ordinary analog sounds are convened to digital
information through the sampling hardware's
analog-to-digital converter (ADC). There are
several very competent audio digitizers available
for tinder SICK), the most popular of which is
probably SunRize Industries' Perfect Sound 3.0
(S99.95).

Most audio digitizers come with some type of sample-editing software,
but, in my opinion, you are much better oPl'mmg Aegis /Oxxi's AudioMas-
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ol other sampling hardware (in addition to Perfect .Sound), ft allows you
to add real-time echo and Hanging, and it uses a low-pass filter to remove
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basic editing Features: cut and paste, copy, and zoom
in for fine editing. It even provides a separate buffer
that is much like an audio version oi the spare screen
in DeluxePaint

When you are digitizing a sound For use in your
presentation, you should capture ("sample") it at the
highest resolution your digitizing software can handle.
This will give you the best quality when that sound is

played back. Sam-
pling a sound at a
high sampling rate
— the number of times
per second your com-
puter takes the "pic-
ture" of that sound —
records it most accu-
rately (hence the high-
er resolution — and
greater fidelity —
when l hat sound is
played back). Unfor-
tunately, this also re-
sults in a very large
sample, which, if you
are using several sam-
ples in your presenta-
tion, may quickly ex-
ceed your system's
memory capacity.

The best solution to
this problem is to use
AudioMaster's "resample" capability. This reduces the
sample size without reducing the sound quality (up to
a point) by resampling the sound in memory. Many
samples recorded at 20,000 samples per second (sps)
can be reduced in AudioMaster to 8363 sps — dramat-
ically reducing the sound-file size without appreciable-
loss in quality. This method provides superior quality
to sampling at a lower rate in the first place.

Another memory-saving feature of AudioMaster III
is its ability to build sequences from a single sample,
Using its Sequence mode, you can set up to 999 loop
points for any given sample and have the sequence
play the loops in the order you set them. When using
long samples, such as continuous music where a great
many phrases are usually repeated at various points in
the sequence, you can simply loop them at the appro-
priate points and cut down significantly on the length
of the sample.

Unfortunately, this looping capability is not yet a
part of the IFF sound standard, but you can still use it
with programs such as Commodore* AmigaVision
(f 149.95 or bundled free with some new Amiga sys-
tems) and other multimedia-authoring programs that
allow you to run external programs. Because Audio-
Master III comes with a player program for playing
looped sequences, you can run this player as a back-
ground task from within AmigaVision by using the ex-
ternal-program command option.

One potential problem (and another AudioMaster
solution) to keep in mind is that if you are playing mu-
sic and want several sounds to play simultaneously, you
may not have enough sound channels (there are only
four). It is possible, however, to make a digitized sound
track that contains all of the sounds by using only two
sound channels (or just one, if you are not using

stereo). This also permits you to synchronize sounds
(although not to frame accurately) with animations in
programs that let you start a sound and an animation
at the same time, but in which vou cannot plav the
sounds on a specific frame.

Here's the trick: Load your animation into your
multimedia software and carefully time it from the mo-
ment it starts to the points at which you want your
sound effects. Load the sound effects into AudioMaster
111 by appending the sounds together. Add the appro-
priate amounts of silence from the beginning and be-
tween the effects by using the Add Workspace option.
Turn on the Time Coordinate display so that you can
edit the length of these silences with better than a hun-
diedth-of-a-second accuracy.

You now have a sample that starts playing silently un-
til the time the first sound effect should be heard. More
silence ensues until the next effect, and so on for each
effect. You can even add additional sounds that can
overlap those sou have already added. When you are
finished, vou will have a single sample that uses
only two channels but includes all of your audio — in
stereo — for an entire sequence. You may have to tweak
it a couple of times to get the timing just right, but the
method does work.

Another excellent tool for editing sound samples for
use with animation sequences is Hash Enterprise's Ani-
mation:Soundtrack (SI 19.95), Combining full-fea-
tured sample-editing and synchronization capabilities,
it simply can't be beat for synchronizing sound with an-
imations. It lets vou edit and synchronize your sound
while you play your animation. This not only speeds
up the process of audio syncing considerably, but it also
makes such complex tasks as lip syncing a snap, be-
cause vou can both edit and choreograph the sounds
from within the same program.

Soundtrack allows you to load your samples into
memory, and it then assigns them in whole or in pari
to be triggered at specific frames. You can plav hack the
resulting sound track and dub il onto video, or you can
play it simultaneously using the program's own ST
player program. The latter is also fully multitasking, so
that you can actually drag and pull down the screen to
get to Workbench while the animation is playing. This
feature is a favorite of mine Tor demonstrating the pow-
er of the Amiga.

(Editor's Note: A mother promising stand-alone sample ed-
itor was announced just as litis article was going to press.
SunRize Industries' Audition 4, $99,95, is reported to
have an impressive list of features, including sequenced loops:
such real-time effects as echo, fade, and flange; and such edit-
ing functions as cut, ropy, paste, filter, smooth, and — na-
tality— resample. Also, Audition 4 supposedly will allow yon
to record directly to (loppy disk. )

Borrowing vs. Making Your Own Music

Often in your presentations you need only a short bit
of music to act as a bridge between sequences or as a
flourish for an animation. In this case, it makes sense
to digitize the music and incorporate it as a digitized
sample. Keep in mind, however, before you start sam-
pling your favorite records, that if you use copyrighted
music without licensing it. you are breaking the law.
The American Society ol ( lomposcrs, Authors and Pub-
lishers (ASCAP) is cracking down hard on those who
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producer who recently was nailed at a conference with
a client at a major hotel, and he wound up paying some
substantial penalties.

There are many music libraries that you can license
on a yearly basis, and there are also buy-out collections
where you can buy the music and use it indefinitely for
your projects. Look in any video magazine for ads for
production-music houses. Remember, too, that buying
music at a record store does not give you the right to
use that music, even ifthe production you are doing is
being offered for free. If" you want to use prerecorded
music, you must pay a licensing fee for it.

pieces. As awkward as Sonix can be at times, it can cre-
ate some very impressive music.

Amiga Vision and most other multimedia programs,
however, do not support the Sonix file format. But,
again — as with AudioMaster — you can use Amiga-
Vision's external-program command to run the Sonix
player program. This will play the music in the back-
ground while the rest of your show continues. I did,
however, encounter one problem worthy of note. In
some cases, it may take a second for the sound channels
to be released before a sound effect can be played.
Even though the music had stopped, the sound chan-
■ nels were not released immediately.

A yV on Audio

FOR MORE INFORMATION on Amiga sound capabilities, audio-digitizing
hardware and software, sampling tips, audio-synchronizing techniques, or MIDI,
consult the following articles and columns that were published in past issues
ofAmigaVVorld.

References to previously published reviews of individual products are con-
tained in the article itself.

"Talkin Electronic Music Blues," May '91, p. 18.

"Sound Design," Mastering Multimedia, Mar. '91, p. 72.

"MIDI and SMPTE Compatibility" (time codes), Jan. '91, p. 76.

"MIDI Sequencers" (buyer's guide), Dec. '90, p. 43.

"Now Hear This!" (sampling tips), Mar. '90, p. 20.

"Play It Together, Sam" (audio syncing), 1990 Video & Animation Special
Issue, p. 68.

"SizzlingSounds"(audiodigitizers/sample-editing software), Oct. '89, p. 48.

"The Sound of Music" (Amiga sound/MIDI music), May '89, p. 16.

If you can write your own music, or know people who
can, you may be better off. If you do not own MIDI-
compatible keyboards or other instruments, though,
your choices are limited (we will discuss MIDI later on
in this article). Deluxe Music Construction Set
($99.95, Electronic Arts) and other composition pro-
grams that use standard IFF instruments do not pro-
vide professional, high-quality sound. But if you want
your music to come straight from the Amiga, there is
really only one choice: Sonix ($79.95, Aegis / Oxxi).

Sonix is a poor composition tool — lacking such im-
portant features as the ability to create triplets — but it
is capable of creating outstanding sound that is as good
as many MIDI instruments. Using its custom-instru-
ment format, you can obtain amazingly good quality
that does not sound "computerized." You are limited
to the standard four-channel audio, but with the help
of AudioMaster, you can create Sonix instruments that
are composed of more than one sound so that a single
note can be playing two or more different instruments
using only one audio channel.

One particularly nice touch about Sonix is that you
can tune any sound in AudioMaster to use as an instru-
ment in Sonix. For example, my group turned an ex-
plosion into an instrument that was played as a single
note within a Sonix sound track. You can also incorpo-
rate samples of vocals into your Sonix scores. You can
even create very long scores with several Instruments
and vocals without consuming large amounts of mem-
ory. Such a score will sound like one long digitized sam-
ple, even though it is made up of digitized bits and

Maximize with MIDI

Although programs such as Sonix are
very versatile, they are still bound to a
large extent by the recording and play-
back limitations of the Amiga's native
sound architecture. This does not mean,
though, that the Amiga is not capable of
producing high-quality audio. It
can... with the help of MIDI.

While there is not enough space here
to go into a full-scale discussion of MIDI,
we can take a look at how it can con-
tribute to your multimedia sound solu-
tions. (See the "AW on Audio" reference
box forAmigaWortd articles and columns
covering MIDI in more depth.)

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital In-
terface) is a serial interface that uses five-
pin black-and-silver cables to carry a
wide range of MIDI data back and forth
between the computer and MIDI-
equipped synthesizers or sound modules. It acts as a
standard protocol to let your .Amiga (or any computer)
talk to and control electronic musical instruments.
MIDI specifications provide for 16 discrete address
channels, each of which can send a separate set of in-
formation to its own synthesizers and samplers. This
means you can have 16 discrete performances occur-
ring simultaneously — a significant boost over the Ami-
ga's native four-note capability!

Another advantage of the MIDI standard is that
there is also a MIDI music file format. You can load
music created on an IBM or Macintosh into your Ami-
ga if that program and yours both support the MIDI
file standard.

There are many other advantages in having the Ami-
ga play music through MIDI, and most of them are of
particular interest to multimedia producers. These in-
volve a variety of ways to accurately synchronize the
music to the visuals (or vice versa). A number of MIDI
sequencer programs for the Amiga can synchronize
music to both MIDI time code (MTC) and SMPTE
time code (the Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers standard).

These include Blue Ribbon SoundWorks' Bars&-
Pipes Professional <S379^reviewed Jul. '91, p. 66),
Dr. Ts KCS 3.5 Level II (S400— reviewed Jul. '90, p.
80), PassPort Design's Master Tracks Pro 3.0 (S395 —
reviewed Jan. '90, p. 62), and Microlllusions' Music-
X ($299.95— reviewed Oct. '89, p. 18). (Also consult
the "MIDI Sequencers" buyer's guide referred to in the
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integrate it into a miiltiprogram environment — which
opens even more possibilities for the multimedia pro-
ducer. You can load, play, start, stop and synchronize
music with such ARexx-compatible programs as
AmigaVision, CanDo ($ 149.9"), INOVAtronics), and
even Elan Performer 2,0 (now hard to find). Or,
you can control such ARexx programs front within
Bars&Pipes. Also, because Bars&Pipes will keep track
of SMITE time code if you have a time-code reader,
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code number from Bars&Pipes and synchronize a
sound, graphic, or event to a specific frame of video.

ARexx control is particularly important if you are us-
ing the enrreni version of AmigaVision, which supports
only lour channels of MUM. This makes MIDI appli-
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four voices. The true beauty of multitasking and ARexx
is the ability of one program with limitations to be able
to control another that will make up for those limita-
tions. Thus. Bars&Pipes dot's nicely as a companion
music player for AmigaVision.

Bars&Pipes is a visually oriented program diat uses
a pipe metaphor to graphically' show the flow of the
music. You can drag special effects icons onto certain
points along the pipeline. These effects include a key-
board splitter, eveni and note filters, randomizer, nans-
poser, harmony generator, quantizer, and mam- more.

Ybu can even create your own effects — each with its own
icon — and then drag them into place at the appropri-
ate points.

The program is very flexible, so it is possible to work
with music that has nonstandard key signatures. It also
has high-resolution timing, with 1 92 clocks per quarter
note, as well as standard MIDI timing. You can even
print out a lead sheet and hear notes as you edit them.
While there are many excellent sequencers for the Ami-
ga (and I do like Music-X very much), Bars&Pipes'
strong visual interface and ARexx capability put it at
the top of the list for multimedia producers.

There are a lot of very good sound and music tools
available to the multimedia producer. Most multimedia
packages do support digitized sound. Many have a
problem with music, however, as they cannot load and
play standard MIDI files. Software publishers are work-
ing to increase the atldio sophistication of their multi-
media packages, and these programs should soon
catch up with the power of the current batch of sound-
editing and MIDI composition software. When I hey do,
it will move Amiga multimedia presentations onto a
very exciting next level. ■

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48 October 1991

Creation by 'Evolution

3-D GRAPHICS FOR 2-D THINKERS

J f you've dabbled with straight 2-D paint and drawing programs — but shied away from.

3-D modeling and animation software — here's a trail-blazing introduction to help you get

in the right mindset to make the evolutionary leap.

By Gene Brawn

FROM THE EARLIEST
cave-wall drawings at Las-
caux and Altamira 20,000
years ago to abstract impres-
sionism and post-modern
pop in the late 20th century,
the artist has struggled with
the same dilemma: How do
you go about the task of rep-
resenting a three-dimen-
sional world on a two-di-
mensional surface? Power to
sculptors, architects, and
junkyard impressarios for
answering the question. Bui
how do the rest of us deal
with the basic problem — de-
spite whatever advances,
or just plain tricks, with
trompe l'oeil, the-medium-
is-the-message 3-D canvas-
es, or computer-generated
3-D object modeling?

Focusing on the comput-
er side of things, at first the
new medium was easy for
artists to understand be-
cause it mimicked the way
they normally worked. Al-
though they were painting
with light, not pigment, the
tools were familiar and the
computer could even auto-
mate some of the more tedious tasks. Painting and drawing
programs were welcomed as great boons to the artist.

The digital wizards were not finished yet, however, and soon

3-D modeling was unleashed
on an unsuspecting art
world. This new technique
produced amazing, allur-
ing, and compelling images,
but the processes and tech-
niques used to create them
were so arcane that even
programmers had problems
understanding the con-
cepts. Eventually, improve-
ments in software design
and user interfaces made
this powerful new medium a
practical tool for the
artist. ..at least we think so.

Contemplating the
Digital Canvas

For most traditional artists,
it is a rewarding process to
see the mind's image pass
directly to the canvas, 3-D
computer images, on the
other hand, while appear-
ing to break a dimensional
barrier, are electronic, not
tactile; your canvas is inside
a glass tube, and worse yet,
you need an apprentice — ■
the computer — to guide the
mindless electrons painting
the image on your screen.
You might call this "art by remote control."

Relinquishing control to a machine is difficult, if not repug-
nant, for most traditional artists, but no matter how much you

[l.UStRATKD BY RICHARD DOWNS

Amiga World 49

E V L I" T I N

wish for it, computers cannot read your mind... yet.
You will have to learn to speak the machines language
if you want to create images in this exciting new medi-
um. Far from arcane, in many ways the new medium
is easy to understand and use, but first you must step

Figure 1. 3-D modeling adds a third — z — axis to the traditional x and y
dimensions of 2-D drawing.

out of your 2-D strailjacket and adjust to the new point
of view.

To ease your journey, I will provide you with some
examples that better illustrate what is going on behind
the screen. Because the Amiga boasts so many different
3-D software packages, I cannot possiblv cover all the

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Figure 2. Lightwave 3D, like many modeling programs, offers the famil-
iar 2-D tri-view— plus a 3-D representation in the lower-right corner.

different variations on the theme. This article, then, is
necessarily an overview of the topic, and while the ter-
minology and methodology of a particular program
may vaiy from my general explanations, the underly-
ing ideas are valid across the range of products avail-
able. So take off your beret, put down your brush, and
prepare yourself for a wild ride through the brave new

world of digital art. (Editor's Note: If this article whets your
appetite jar further, and more specific, 3-D exploration, we
heartily recommend that you take a look at two features we've
published recently on Amiga 3-D graphics software to get a
feel for the individual programs out there on the market: "The
AW User's Guide to 3-D Software, " Mar. '91, p. 22, and
"The State of 3-D Art," May '91, p. 26.)

The Creative Director

Now that you have surrendered yourself to this strange
new way of making art, it is time to meet your crew of
new' assistants and to examine the role each plavs in
your multidimensional productions. (.Although we are
not talking multimedia or video here, think of yourself
for this section more in terms of film production than
traditional painting or drawing — try it!) First off, you
are like a producer. Initially, you need some objects, the
foundation of 3-D imaging. Think of them as your ac-
tors, but — unlike in Hollywood — you cannot just call a
casting agent and order them up: instead, you must
create them — either from scratch or from primitive
shapes from your program's library.

Once your cast is assembled, you assume the role of
a scene designer. You define the size of your set and
whether it is indoors or outdoors, and then add the
props and paint. Next, as the lighting designer, you
light the set and determine who gets the spotlight and
who stays in the shadows. Then, as director, you place
your actors on the set and rehearse their moves. Finally,
as the cameraman, you choose the best lenses and
shooting angles and prepare for that fateful moment
when you shout, "Ready when you are, C.B.!"

Artist's Models and Architects

Just as in a paint program, you use points and lines to
define the shape of your three-dimensional object, usu-
ally in a separate part of the program called a modeler.
Unlike its 2-D cousin, however, the 3-D modeler adds
a third, /,, axis to the standard x and y dimensions. In
other words, besides the left-to-right horizontal (x) and
top-to-bottom vertical (y) lines, the modeler has a third
(z) direction perpendicular to both the x and y axes
(see Figure 1). The addition of this third axis is the key
to 3-D software. (While some applications orient these
three axes differently, the perpendicular arrangement
never varies.)

Some 2-D paint programs, such as DeluxePaint, also
offer this third dimension, but with limitations. For ex-
ample, if you create an image of a cube and then rotate
it on the y-axis, it is instantly apparent that the cube is
an illusion and has no depth. The program is designed
to know about 3-D space, but the objects in it are al-
ways Hat.

Changing metaphors for a moment, think like an ar-
chitect while creating a 3-D object. Working from your
"blueprints," the first thing you must do is to construct
a skeleton, or wireframe, for your object. This frame-
work resembles the unfinished steel skeleton of a high-
rise building before the walls are hung from it. Many 3-
D software packages use polygons to define this
structure, and although lacking color or texture, the ba-
sic outline is apparent. Polygons can assume any shape
as a group, but are always composed of triangular or
rectangular facets.

The drawback to this technique becomes apparent
when you try to create smooth curves. The polygons al- »

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It is indeed a winner

'There is simply no other Amiga program that

comes close to it in terms of out-of-the-box

useability, speed, or level of features."

AMIGA WORLD August 1991

Professional Computer Aided Design and Drafting for the Amiga

DynaCADD is a 2D and 3D general purpose
design and drafting software package for
electrical, mechanical, architectural and civil
applications. Fully interactive 2D and 3D
capabilities to both North American and
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down menus, mouse, keyboard, function keys
and user definable macro keys. Online context
sensitive documentation. On screen command
help line. Extremely user friendly icon based
interface that sets the program apart from all
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Multiple 3D views

Hidden Line Removal

Dimensioning

Line Weights / Styles

Resident View Control

Grid and Axis

Sectioning / Hatching

Entity Types Base entity types include:

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3D FACES, B-SPLINES and BEZIER

CURVES. Multiple entities in BOXES,

POLYGONS, POLYFIGURES, SUBFIGURES,

SECTIONING and HATCHING. Entities can be

either 2D or 3D. Entities in 3D can be

transformed to 2D.

Fifteen 2D dynamic Entity Insertions

Location and Entity Snap

Entity Selection and Drawing Information

Entity Transformations

Up to 256 Layers

Background Plotting / Printing

MAKEPLOT Program

Printer Support Epson and compatible

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HP Laserjet series, PostScript compatible

and Encapsulated PostScript.

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Plotter Support Pen plotters, including
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Text/Fonts AGFA/COMPUGRAPHIC fonts are
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• 100's of additional features

DynaCADD 9

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AMIGA® Systems Requirements:

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DynaCADD® is also available for the MS/DOS
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ways have straight edges. In order to create a smooth
surface, the polygons will have to be very small and
numerous. Adding, or subdividing, thousands of poly-
gons can get tedious very quickly. (Very few Amiga

Figure 3. Texture mapping can quickly turn an ordinary object, such
as a simple sphere, into a richly detailed globe like this one.

applications based on this approach can oiler you any
help here.)

As a result, some new 3-D modeling programs using
algorithmic splines, not polygons, were developed to
alleviate this time-consuming procedure. Instead of
building vour shape from little triangles, you use
splines to draw the shape as if you were drawing it free-
hand, and the software does the rest. Not everybody,
however, jumped on this bandwagon, perhaps because
thev felt that they were sacrificing the power and pre-
cise control inherent in the earlier method.

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Figure 4. A good scene-layout editor allows you to work in either 2-D
or 3-D to place objects, lights, and cameras.

Whatever the program's approach, the typical inter-
face of a .1-1) modeling program can take some getting
used to if you are not a draftsman. Figure 2 shows a

feirly representative "Iri-view'' screen from NewTek's
I.ightWave 3D modeler program (bundled with that
company's Video Toaster hardware). Although, inter-
nally, the computer is manipulating a true three-di-
mensional object, so lo speak, the image is usually rep-
resented two-dimciisionally on your monitor. The
program generally provides three views of the object:
a front or back view, a top or bottom view, and a side
view, In the lower-right corner of the screen is a true
3-D representation of the current object.

If you modify one of the views in the tri-view, the oth-
ers are instantly updated to rellect the new configura-
tion. While it may seem more intuitive to manipulate
the three-dimensional representation directly, many
artists find the '2-D tri-view essential for the exactness
it provides in allowing them to observe the precise re-
lationship of planes and points that is so difficult to see
in the 3-D version.

Adventures in the Skin Trade

Now that you have completed your object's skeleton,
it is time to flesh it out. In 3-D modeling, this binary
skin is called a surface or facet. Depending on the
package you are using, this fleshing out is accom-
plished within the modeler or in a separate module (as
in I.ightWave SD's Surfaces module). Again, using the
skyscraper analogy, ibis is similar to adding the stone
lacing, window glass, and decorative trim to the build-
ing. Although the concept is simple, the options are so
numerous as to be often overwhelming. The simplest
technique is to digitize, say, a real marble pattern and
then use the software to wrap this texture around your
object. Called surface mapping, this is quick and pain-
less; the hardest part is lo get the edges of the image
to meet without a visible seam.

Potentially more powerful, but more complicated, is
the algorithmic texture map. In this variation, the pro-
gram usessoliwarc to generate the pattern (as in Figure
3, where the simple spherical object — whose wireframe
representation you can see ill Figure 4 — has been tex-
ture mapped so thai it now appears to be a planet or
globe). Because the computer generates the texture,
the variations are, theoretically, infinite (depending on
the software, ol course).

Texture mapping is one of the more exciting areas
of 3-D modeling, with new variations appearing al-
most daily. The beauty of mapping the texture to the
object is that you do not have to worry about contour-
ing, shading, or highlighting; the computer handles
these automatically. As there are so many possible vari-
ations in a texture, you may spend a long time arriving
al (me that pleases you. Nevertheless, it is much easier
to instruct the computer to modify a setting and rcren-
der the object than it is to draw the surface by hand.
only to find that you look a wrong turn somewhere and
have to start over from scratch.

The Digital Director

'file next stop on our journey is the digital studio. This
is where you build what is known as a scene, or the ar-
tificial universe in which your objects exist. For this
phase, put away the drafting table, take out the direc-
tor's chair, and treat the scene as ihe stage or movie set
we discussed earlier — complete with actors and props
(your objects), lights, backdrops, and, of course, a cam-
era for recording your brilliant staging. As with the »-

52 October 1991

Prima!

A Look Inside the Ultimate A500.

Flicker Free Video •

ICD proudly presents Prima 1 ."., the high performance,
low cost hard drive for Amiga' 500 computers. Prima
blends a large capacity, low power Quantum™ hard drive
with ihc AdlDE™ host adapter for an unbeatable
combination.

Prima replaces the internal floppy drive but includes
Shuffle Board" to make your external floppy drive
DFO:. Prima features auto-booting from FastFileSystem
partitions, high speed caching, auto-configuring, and
A-Maxlf" support. Formatted capacities of 52 and 105
megabytes are currently available.

Prima comes complete with instructions, software, and
all the hardware necessary for a simple, clean, no-solder
installation. It docs require an A500 with switching
power supply, I megabyte of RAM, and an external
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What other products would we include in the "Ultimate
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modeler, the ideal scene module allows you to work in
either a 3-D or 2-D environment (see Figure 4). Once
again, this may be necessary to ensure the precise
placement of your objects in the dimensional space.

First, decide how large
your set should be and then
place your actors and [Drops
within the boundaries of this
space, it is often lielplul to
position your software cam-
era, then orient the objects
while viewing the scene
through your digital "lens."
You may, of course, view the
scene from whatever posi-
tion you wish — 1mm on high
or even from below, as if you
were looking through a glass
floor. You get to define "re-
ality" here; you are the dig-
ital deity.

Now you are ready to light
the scene. Depending on
the software you are using,
you will have from one to an
infinite number of lights
with which to work. The
number of lights your 3-D
package provides is one of
the most important aspects
in the success or failure of
your images. If you are
working with a single light,
your images will lend to
have a monotonous same-
ness. As you gain confidence
and your scenes become
more complex, multiple
light sources are mandatory.

For best results, put on your photographer's hat while
you are lighting a scene.

Think in terms of the standard three-point setup: a
key light, a fill light, and a back light. If you are fuzzy
on this concept, a basic photography manual is invalu-
able. Keep in mind that 3-D software mimics the laws
of physics. Even though vou are manipulating little fig-
ures on a monitor, the computer treats the lights and
objects as if they were in the real world. For example,
if vou want a shadow on the left side of the character,
you must place a light of sufficient power at the proper
angle and distance to the right of the subject. I cannot
overemphasize the importance of good lighting tech-
nique; it will make or break your final image.

Depending on your needs, vou may want to consider
3-D software with "ray-iracing" capabilities. The prin-
ciples behind this technique are simple in concept, but
complex in execution. Ray tracing takes the simulation
of the laws of physics to their extreme by applying t bent
to each simulated ray of light in your scene. The soft-
ware calculates the path of a ray of light from its source
to your eye — bouncing off reflective surfaces, passing
through water or glass, casting shadows, and defining
textures. The drawback is that this process requires lit-
erally millions of calculations and a lot of" rendering
time. But if realism is paramount to you, there is no
better way to go.

fiat

And Choreography, Too!

3-D software is unquestionably revolutionary, but no as-
pect of it is as impressive as its power to animate. Al-
though the holy grail of perfectly realistic character an-
imation is not yet a reality,
desktop 3-D software puts
this marvelous art form
nearly within the reach of
every artist. Not only that,
but you can create striking
animations even if" you are
not a gifted artist. Your skill
at drawing, while not unim-
portant in terms of compo-
sition, color, and style, is not
so crucial in the creation of
individual 3-D objects or
characters. In traditional 2-
D animations, such skills are
essential if you are going to
draw the same character
hundreds or even thousands
of times. With the help of
powerful software routines
built into 3-D programs,
however, once an object ex-
ists, you'll never have to
draw it again. If you are not
satisfied with something,
simply tweak a few settings
and command the software
to do the grunt work.

If your animation is in an
Amiga screen format, you
can replay the 3-D anima-
tion frames in real time, us-
ing any number of standard
animation packages. On
the other hand, if you cre-
ate the images in one of the new '24-bit, 16-miliion-col-
or formats, you will need a way to save the individual
frames, which usually involves some expensive hard-
ware. If" price is a problem for you, low-cost solutions
are available via such hardware/software systems as Dig-
ital Creations' DCTV or Black Belt System's HAM-E.
These "black boxes" use conventional Amiga-format-
ted files to simulate the 24-bil display, and they allow
you to play back your animations in real lime.

Computerized 3-D modeling opens up a new" world
to both the traditional artist and amateur graphics fan.
Accomplished artists can use this powerful software lo
indulge their most outrageous fantasies and to push
their talents to the limit. The novice, too, will be able
to create beautiful objects in a much shorter time than
the traditional period of art apprenticeship usually dic-
tates. Of course, mastering the power at your fingertips
does require tackling a steep learning curve. Taken one
step at a lime, however, it is manageable and, above all,
one of'lhe most rewarding things you will ever do with
your Amiga. ■

Gene Brawn is a digital animator, graphics designer, and fre-
quent lecturer, as well as a contributing editor to this maga-
zine. Write to him clo AmigaWorld Editorial Dept, SO Elm
St., Peterborough, NH 03458.

54 October 1991

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A continuing series

of tips, techniques.

and tricks for

creating more

imaginative Amiga

graphics.

By Joel Hagen

Painting with
DCTV

AMIGA ARTISTS ENJOY an increas-
ing number of alternatives to 32-color
or HAM images. In fact, with a new
generation of 24-bit or near 24-bil
imaging devices (with their accompa-
nying software) making it possible to
create up 10 16.7 million colors, even
the Amiga's original 4096-color display
seems a little passe.

One of the more interesting of these
new products is Digital Creations'
DCTV ($495), the Paim module of
which allows painting with millions of
colors on a TV image. DCTV is a small
box that plugs into the RGB video port
on the Amiga. I plug the Video Out
cable from DCTV into the Video In
jack on my monitor and set the Video
Mode switch to Composite when I use
DCTV In addition to the Paint pro-
gram, other software modules — Digi-
tize and Convert — allow you to capture
images from a video source and to
process and convert them into any
standard Amiga format and resolution
(as well as saving them in DC IV '"raw"
or 24-bit IFF file formats).

This month's column details an easy
first project with DCTV Painl that
yields results I cannot achieve with
HAM or 52-color paint programs.

Natasha's a HAM, but More
Was Needed

The object of this project is to give a
digitized photograph the look of a
painting. Even a nonartist can achieve
interesting results with this technique. I
started with a photo — taken on a trip
to the Soviet Union — of a friend,
Natasha, in the birch woods near
Moscow. I had previously digitized the
image in 1 1AM mode, but with poor
lighting. I liked the composition, but it
was grainy and indistinct and soon
relegated to the scrap drawer. Ironical-
ly, however, this grainincss made it a
perfect candidate for my DCTV idea.
Loading the image, I selected Hide
Pointer under Paint Options. Doing
this makes the crosshairs disappear
when a stroke is begun. Using the

Brush icon to put me in Paint mode. I
selct ted the di iited-line draw ing tool
for a faster response than that obtained
with the solid-line tool.

Beneath Palette are the five buttons
of the Panel selector. Opening the
Brush panel reveals an assortment of
modes, controls, and shapes. I selected
Solid, then Blend mode, as niv primary
tools for this project. Blend picks up
colors the brush passes over, smearing
them along the stroke. You can control
the behavior of a Blend brush with the
Flow slider. A Flow of 1 ()<)','•; lays down
heavy, opaque color. Lower Flow rates
give a subtler, more gradual effect that
lades over the length of a stroke. I used
a Flow of 25% fur this project. I chose a
round brush, changing its si/.e with the
+ and - keys as needed. More often
than not, I used a size 3 brush. This
provides good control and responsive-
ness, even on a slock Amiga 1000.

Ibis basic setup is quite easy: Simply
load an image, select Blend, slide Flow
down to 2'i'7( and start painting. When
the Blend brush passes over an area of
the loaded HAM image, pixels vanish,
to he replaced by a soft brush stroke of
smooth colors. The Tccl" of painting
with DC IV is quite dilferenl than with
a program that lays down a tile of
colored pixels.

I stalled with Natasha's hair, smear-
ing the colors out in smooth strokes as
though I were using oils. The graini-
ness of the original HAM image helped
me see which areas I had not yet re-
touched with the Blend brush. I
planned lo go over the entire image,
making the final picture look as though
it had been painted with brush strokes.

I was careful to follow contours and
lines in logical ways. As I stroked the
brush along the wrinkles in the jacket,
pixels blended and became soli shapes.
In the hair, I followed lines in the un-
derlying image. The Blend brush
pushes color from one area into anoth-
er. As I painted, I revised the original
image — extending the line of the col-
lar, painting out extraneous detail, and
refining lines and edges with careful
brush strokes. I saved the face for last,

56 October 19'M

Using the millions of colors available in DCTV's 24-bit paint
software can yield some impressive results.

learning the behavior of the tools on
less critical areas.

GlVERNEY IN THE MOSCOW WOODS

As the image developed, I wanted
more color in the background for an
impressionistic mood of sunny woods
in the distance. I switched to Tint
mode, which colors an area while re-
taining the detail. Setting Flow to 50%,
I selected the Draw Filled icon from
the tool bar. From the Fill panel, I then
chose the Point highlight. Using a
light-blue color, I outlined areas oi sky
in the background, specifying the area
of maximum tinting by clicking the
cursor at that highlight point. Because
Flow was set at 50%, the timing effects
were subtle and cumulative. The Point
highlight kepi the edges soli. I added
warm color to earth in the middle
distance and brightened the greens of
the foliage.

Returning to the original Blend
mode settings, I worked the colorful
background heavily, breaking up the
photographic detail, but preserving the
feel of organic forms. Moving to the
("ace, I took care to control the brush
strokes so that areas of light and dark
colors did not intermix to destroy the
modeling of the features. At the time
of writing this article, DC'IY Paint does
not have an Undo function (such a
feature is promised in the upcoming
1.1 version), so 1 made frequent use of
the Quick Save/Quick Uoaci feature as a
safety precaution.

In the original HAM picture, a verti-
cal slice of busy background cluttered
the image to the left of the large tree.
As my blended image neared comple-
tion. I decided to fill the left side with
dark color to strengthen the composi-
tion. 1 used the Draw Filled tools again,
but this time with Solid color and the
Vertical hotspot With the Shift key, I
was able to select a dark color directly
from the screen. I then returned to
Blend mode, adding brushstrokes to
the dark area to finish the image.

While the file sire of my original
HAM image size was about 95K, the
'24-bit IFF version of my blended pic-

ture was over 500K. The IX TV ver-
sion, however — containing all the color
of the 2-! bit version — was only slightly
larger (105K.) than the original. With
this DCTV advantage, the artist can
enjov the benefits of the millions of
NTSC colors in addition to the small
file size of standard IFF images. No
special software is needed to display
DCTV images, because they are stored
as standard IFF files. Almost any dis-
play or presentation software can use
them. Remember, however, that you
must keep the IX TV box plugged in
to see full video color; if you don't, you
won't see anything. ■

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At'last there's a low-cost solution

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By Louis R. Wallace

THE AMIGA HAS been a consistent

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offering advanced animation software
at a fraction of the price of other plat-
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played in real time, they were, however,
limited to the standard Amiga display
modes and palettes. Although these
screen resolutions have been useful for
on-screen demonstrations, educational
use, and other such applications, in
most cases the resulting animations are
not suitable Tor professional output.

In the past year there has been
tremendous progress in the twin areas
of Amiga graphics and animation. With
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wave (NewTek), and Imagine (Impulse),
Amiga animators have tools equal, and
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Affordable tools for creating profes-
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and every occasion to display your
animations: you must be able to trans-
fer them to videotape. Currently how-

Figure 1. The Personal SFC's main control center.

ever, no personal computer has
enough power and memory to animate
full-screen 24-bit sequences in real
time. Von must create and record your
animations to videotape one frame at a
time, a process called single frame
recording.

Home VCRs and the bulk of indus-
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This type of equipment is generally
quite expensive. The Sony VO9850 SP
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5000 transport controller (S3000) that
AmigaWorld purchased for single-frame
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Combined, however, with the price of
the computer, memory, disk storage,
graphic display device, and software,
their cost is beyond what many
prospective animators can afford.

February's InfoCOMM multimedia
show and April's NAB convention
brought good news for the price con-
scious. At the former, Panasonic
showed a new SVHS VTR called the
AG 7750, which representatives
promised would be "perfect" for Video
Toaster users. According to Panasonic,
the deck has a built-in TBC. SMITE
time code, an RS-422A interface, and
frame accuracy. Just as important is the
price— S6500 for the deck and $650
for the time-code card option (AG
F700). You should be able to find street
prices that are considerably lower.

At NAB, Nucleus Electronics took a
step towards fulfilling Panasonic's
promise, announcing an extremely low-
priced transport controller for use widi
the Toaster's Lightwave animation pack-
age and (you guessed it) Panasonic's AG
7750. Instead of costing thousands of
dollars, the Personal SFC (Single Frame
Controller) lists for only S425.

Theory into Action

While somewhat dubious about the
effectiveness of anything so inexpen-
sive, I decided I had to find out if the
claims were true. Shortly after the
shows, I added the Personal SFC and
the AG 7750 to my Video Toaster-
equipped Amiga 2500.

Hardware installation was extremely
simple: For video, I connected a video
cable from the Toaster's Video Out to
the AG 7750's Video In connector. The
AG F700 time-code card went in equal-
ly smoothly. I loosened a couple screws
on the top of the deck, lifted the lid,
and inserted the card in the easily
accessible slot.

The Nucleus controller was also
simple to set up, because the hardware
component is merely a cable that runs
from the Amiga's serial port to the AG '
7750's RS-422A port. Unlike other
transport controllers, which are usually
large boxes that connect to the com-
puter via cable, the Nucleus controller
supposedly has circuitry embedded in
its connector that, with the accompany-
ing software, replaces a great deal of
the traditional unit's "unnecessary™
electronics.

When starting the SFC, you are
presented with a fairly clear-cut inter-
face (see Figure 1 ) that is segmented
into groups of related controls. The

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Figure 3. The Animation Sequence Editor
lets you specify a list of scenes for
display and recording.

tipper-left cluster powers standard VCR
functions (Play, Pause, Rewind, Fast
Forward, Stop and Record): the middle
set consists of a time-code readout and
a jog-shuttle dial; and the upper-right
group sports six special-function com-
mand buttons. The bottom of the main
screen is a status display, where the
software keeps you informed of its
actions.

To begin single framing with any
system, you must first stripe a tape —
thai is, write time code and a black

Figure 2. In the VTR Animation Decision
List screen, you can specify your record-
ing settings.

video signal to the entire tape. The
system subsequently uses this time code
to access specific frames on the tape.
This is an absolute necessity For single-
frame animation work. Striping a tape
on some systems is an overly complex
chore, but the Personal SFC makes it a
breeze. Clicking on the Anim button
brings up the VTR Animation Decision
List screen (see Figure 2). From here,
you set the starting time-code value
you want on the tape, and you are
prompted to make the proper control
settings on the AG-7750 before it be-
gins striping.

Keep in mind that you should supply
a good video black signal; there are
two easy methods of doing so from the
Toaster. The first is to select a black

background from the Toaster switcher
and HKC for the Program output. This
will work, but you can obtain a belter
black directly from Lightwave. From
I be Lightwave Scene menu, clear the
scene to remove any objects, images, or
backgrounds, and then select Render.
This creates a very good black thai you
can use for striping your tapes. Once
the black screen is tendered, you can
reenter the switcher, make sure your
program output is DY1. and then use
the CTRL-CTRL-ALT- ALT key se-
quence to return to the Amiga display,
and the SFC software to start the tape
striping.

Custom Control

Once you stripe the tape, you can
configure the SFC for use in Light-
wave. Return to the Anim menu and
indicate by selecting Sel Start where on
the tape you wish to record your ani-
mation. In the resulting requester,
enter the position on the striped tape,
using the hour, minute, second, and
frame number at which you want to
begin recording. Vou can also specify
the number of frames of tape you wish
to record for each animation frame,
although normally you'd want oillv one
frame apiece. By clicking on the num-
ber in the Count column, you can
change the number of recorded frames
for amy frame, independent or the
others.

Selecting Fill Range lets you set an
entire range of frames with the same
Irauie-count number. This is very use-
ful for animations in which you don't
need a different scene every frame and
are willing to settle for recording two
frames of video Tor each frame of
animation. I use this feature to record
multiple video frames of die first
frame of my animations. I normally
write 80 frames (a full second) of video
for the first animation frame to use
later on when I edit the sequence onto
another tape.

The final set-up phase begins by
choosing the Auto option from the
main menu. In the resulting requester,
select the Toaster Render option. A
Final requester then asks you for the
frame at you want to start recording.
Normally you indicate the default
value of 1 , but there will be times when
you need to restart an unfinished ani-
mation from where you left off. For
example, if you have already recorded
the first 250 frames of your Lightwave
scene on tape, you can tell the SFC
software to start at frame 251 (just as ►-

60 October 1991

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you can start Lightwave rendering at
the same frame). This can be an in-
valuable time-saving feature.

At this point, a message appears in
the status window indicating yon are in
Lightwave control mode. Returning to
Lightwave, select the Record menu and
enter the Record command. T#. Now,
when you render your scene (if you
have enabled Lightwave's Record
mode), each frame will be recorded to
the videotape at the position yon indi-
cated in the SFC software.

Beyond Toast

As you can see, the Personal SFC is a
powerful and extremely easy lo use
addition 10 the Toaster/Lightwave
animation system. Even if it did noth-
ing more than I have described so far. I
would heartily recommend it. Hut it
has a number of other features that
make it desirable for uses besides
Toaster-based projects.

For example, the Animation Se-
quencing feature (see Figure 3) lets you
build a list of filenames of disk-based
images. Then il displays and records
the images to tape, one frame at a

time. It supports a great number of
display output devices, including Fire-
cracker, Framebuffer (Mimetics), DCTV
(Digital Creations), I IAM-F (Black Belt
Systems), Colorburst (M.A.S.T./Cen-
taur), Toaster framestores, and stan-
dard IFF images. Once you create a
sequence list, the Personal SFC soli-
ware loads and records the images in
the designated sequence. Or, you can
create a small black-and-white Amiga
animation that the SFC software will
play on the normal Amiga display.

For those who would like to experi-
ment with stop-motion animation, the
software includes an option to manual-
ly record incoming video one frame at
a time. So get out your tiny dinosaurs,
clay models, and the kids' toys and
become the next great stop-motion
animator.

For me, an even more fascinating
option is time-lapse photography. With
this option and a video camera, you
can compress a long time sequence
into a fraction of real time by recording
a single frame from the camera every n
seconds. As a test, I recorded a Mower
outside mv window for ten hours, at a

rate of one frame even' 30 seconds.
The result was a 40-second lilm that
clearly showed the plant moving in
response to the sun, a phenomenon
thai impressed me as much as the
younger members of my family.

While the Personal SFC was original-
ly designed for use with the Panasonic
AG 7750. Nucleus has greatly expand-
ed the number of V IKS the SFC con-
trols. Current support includes such
other Panasonic models as the AU GO,
AU 65, AU 640, AU 650 and AU 660,
as well as Sony's BVU 800, BVU 820,
BVU 850 SP. BVU 870 SP, BVU 950 SP,
VO 9850 SP, BVH 3000. BVH 3100.
BVW 70 Betacam SP, BVW 75 Betacam
SP, and the DRV 10 D2. Support for
others is under way.

There are a number of animation
transport controllers on the market,
but none have the price/performance
combination or the software features of
the Nucleus single-frame controller.
Few products come along that offer a
real solution to a need, do it far belter
than the competition, and for a frac-
tion oi the cost. The Personal SFC is
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DICIPAINT 3 PAL 68.95

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PHOTON PAINT 2.0™.. 99.95

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SCULPT ANIMATE 4-D JB 89.85

SPECTRACOLOR 84.86

li'Slll SILVER 3.0 88.00

VIBEBSCAPE 36 VZ.0 118.00

DESKTOP VIDEO

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ENHANCER 94.95

BRBABCASI T1TLER II 220.00

BROADCAST TITLER II PAL 289.00

CINELINK FOR IMAGLINK I75.0D

CO! Oil TEXT SCROLLER 23.85

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NEHIKI VIOEO TOOLS ON TAP .... 52.85

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TVTEXT PROFESSIONAL 98.95

VIDEO CLIPS 94.96

VIDEO EFFECTS SO 11D.D0

VIDEO EFFECTS 3D PAL 1 33.95

VIDEO PAGE 9B.B6

VIDEO TOOLS I7S.0D

VLDEOTITIiR 30 8B.E5

VIDCEN t.O 83.85

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AMOS THE CREATOR 94.95

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CANDO 98.95

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CANDO INTROPAK 23.95

CANDO PRDMK 1 23.95

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elephants, and screams sere-
nade the squads of soldiers
and calvary running around
the battlefield either fighting
or escaping. Once you or the
enemv has been routed from
the field, the battle ends
and, in line Roman tradi-
tion, you go home a hero or
on your shield.

Winning wars is only part
of the requirement to be-

come Caesar, you must also
placate the masses and im-
press them with your virtues.
One method is to build a
Colosseum and l brow games.
You also must buy the lions.
tigers, slaves, and gladiators
that will fight to the death.
The gladiator lights are
arcade sequences in which
you control one ol the com-
batants, always trying to give
the crowd a good show.

To demonstrate your per-
sonal abilities, you can partic-
ipate in arcade-sequence
chariot races. The winner
gains significant amounts of
social status (and receives
promotions faster). While it's
possible to win fair and
square, I found it more fun to
make offerings lo the gods,
hire a physician, and bribe
my opponents while making
some side bets on the race.

All the action is not land
based, however, as you can *■

Crib Notes

By Peter Olafson

• Sometimes a clue will generate
as many questions as the game it-
self. Witness the torrent of notes
I've received asking for more details
on the solution to the crane puzzle
in Shadow of the Beast II (Psygno-
sis, S59.95). The writers typically
have successfully picked up the
stone pillar and dropped it on the
spike, but cannot push the shard
over to the teeter-totter a s instru ct-
ed. Seems there's this little matter
of an acid pool in the way,

The problem is that you're get-
ting ahead of yourselves. Most of
the puzzles in this game are
chained; that is, one must be solved
correctly to complete the next. Un-
fortunately, the puzzle you have to
solve to make the crane puzzle solv-
able is among the toughest in the
game. [I suspect people are skip-
ping it just out of frustration.)

Let's backtrack a hit: Heading
left from the start, before you even
reach the teeter-totter, you'll come
across a rope. I'm not going to hold
your hand all the way up there, but
suffice to say the rope leads to an
elevator and the elevator to a pit
with a chain hanging down into it.

Down in the pit, there's a beast
in a cage fto the left), a creature
dozing at a table (in the middle),
and a wall with two switches (at
the right). You want to hit the lower
switch to create the bridge over the
acid pit in the crane puzzle. Above
all, this requires caution and fast re-
flexes. Drop carefully off the left
side of the rope — without disturb-
ing the creature — whomp the
dreamer as though he just acciden-
tally reformatted your hard drive,
and while he's shaking it off, hit the
bottom switch and leap for the
chain. Upon returning to the crane,
you'll find the bothersome acid

To locate developers of the games reviewed, see the "Manufacturers/Distributors Addresses" list on p. 118.

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also invest some money in
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can be used for transporting
lumps to providences across
the sea or lor defense
against seafaring barbarians.
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game, when two opposing
fleets are engaged il be-
comes a colorful game of
action where you must shoot
Greek fire and arrows at lite
other ship while trying to
avoid getting hit.

Centurion oners the play-
er multiple levels of difficul-
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you can become Caesar in
an evening, while higher
levels might take several
nights. I have yet to make
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game to be quite entertain-
ing on several levels: simple
enough thai it was easv in
get started, hut with enough
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compatible, bard-drive in-
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by a look-up copy protection
scheme.)

Wonderland

By Peter Olafson

Somebody snnck into our
home the other night, but he
didn't steal a tiring. In fad,
he left something behind — a
neatly installed Macintosh
emulator in my Amiga.

How can I tell? Well, how
else do you explain Wonder-
land (Virgin Mastcrt ronic,
$59.99)? It's either a Mac
game or it has the nrost
unabashedly Mar-like inter-
face I've ever seen.

Normally I might get all
huflv at the idea of a Mac

restore interest in that sadly
vanishing genre.

frankly, the game is leu
almost unalloyed delight. The
pleasure comes partly from
the handsome, data-rich,
windowed game system —
mildly reminiscent of the
nor [nfbcom used for its
Mac-only Quarterstaff- — and
partly from the game itself
Essentially, Wonderland per-
mits text, graphics, inventory,
a map, a compass, and ob-
jects in the room (or any

Does Alice live here anymore?

interface on the Amiga, but it
works and who am I to quar-
rel with success? Wonderland
is the first game in ages from
the Magnetic Scrolls design
team (The Pawn. Guild of
Thieves, Fish, and so forth),
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graphics-and-a-wholc-loi-
more adventure destined to

combination thereof) to ap-
pear within separate resizable
windows. The graphics are
sharp, beautiful, and

often animated (dig the foot-

76 October 1991

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P R B S E R V E

lapping chair!), and the

small-size format makes I hem
more intense. The game also
has terrific music, all in the
appropriate places.

While the game is based
on Lewis Carroll's A lice's
Adventures in Wonderland, it's
not at all glued to it. You
may find the level of play
difficult in spots, but gener-
ally it is easy enough so that
you won't feel you're stum-
bling blindly from trap to
trap. (I am curious, though.
to see how a trio of earlier
Magnetic Scrolls games,
scheduled to be converted to
this system, will bear up.)

Wonderland, however,
should have taken a cue
from the rushing White
Rabbit in Carroll's story.
Playing it from hard disk on
a 68000-based machine (its

four disks make having a
hard drive a big plus), I
found the game decidedly
turtle-ish in doing just about
everything — resizing win-
dows, pulling up graphics,
pulling down menus, or just
giving you it look at your
inventory, I'm not even
counting the 45 minutes or
so it look to install the game
on hard disk and to decom-
press the graphics files.
(Wonderland does run on
the A3000, and I suspect it
is correspondingly faster on
that machine.)

So. hey. Virgin, this is the
Amiga, remember? The one
with the custom graphics
hardware? I love vom
game, and (he new look, but
don't forget who's going to
be playing W.

Continued on p. 80.

pool has been bridged.

An alternate solution: If you
push further into the cavern to the
right of the pit — a sort of nasty
business — you'll find a key. You can
use it to loose the caged creature
on the steeper, then take advantage
of the resultant mayhem. (Just be
sure to get out of the way.)

■ Last time, I promised help with
the two big sticking points with
Elvira: Mistress of Dark (Accolade,
S59.95). Since then, a few more
have turned up.

One is the cook in the kitchen.
Definitely an unpleasant character;
what's to be done with her? Well,
think about her |ob. There's one
particular condiment that will
throw her over your shoulder. Have
you checked out the Torture Cham-
ber? (Appropriate spot! Don't ne-
glect it as a resource for other items
as well,)

it's tempting to play Elvira as a
graphic adventure and neglect the
role-playing elements, but you can
do that for only so long. Magic will
work wonders for your progress,
and you need to collect ingredients
in the herb garden and dungeon
whenever possible.

So, on your first trip to the
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low you to see what's what when

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Outdoors.

Another problem people are hav-
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the crossbow from the armory just
inside the castle entrance. You
should find crossbow holts in one
of the upstairs bedrooms. Take
them all, for you'll need them for
other tasks (notably for killing off
the Gray Knight, I

Are we there yet? No, I said
werewolf. Think silver. Out in the
garden there's a shed with some
very nasty contents. Don't neglect
them — you'll need the maggots for
your spellcasting — but do be sure
to collect the cross. You're almost
ready.

Now, get thee to the foundry. In
the box beside the wail, you'll find
a crucible. Put the cross in the cru-
cible and the crucible in the fire and
a crossbow bolt in the melted silver.
Ta-dahl Now go hunting, and be
sure to check out the stable thor-
oughly afterward. That last stall
conceals a vital item.

I've also heard from a few people
stuck in the endgame. They've fi-
nally opened the trunk and taken
the scroll and dagger, but don't
Continued on p. 80.

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The Secret of Monkey Island

By Jeff James

Ale swilling, treasure
hunting, and damsel rescu-
ing head the bill of Fare in
The Secret of Monkey Island
(Lucasfilm, $59.95). Pat-
terned after Lucasfilm's
earlier adventure games,
Loom and Maniac Mansion,
Secret serves up an enter-
taining helping of swash-
buckling adventure.

Once you deal with Se-
cret's code-wheel copy pro-
tection, the game begins
with a flourish of excellent
opening music, a fusion of
Caribbean swing and pirate
ditty, that exemplifies the
quality of music offered
throughout the entire game.

After the introductory
fanfare, you're off to enig-
matic Melee Island with
your adventuresome alter-
ego, young Guybrush
Threepwood. Guybrush 's
goal in life is to become a
pirate, a quest facilitated by
Lucasfilm's "SCUMM"
point-and-click interface.
Used in Loom and Maniac
Mansion, SCUMM involves
selecting from a list of verbs
at the bottom of the playing
screen that form sentences
telling Guybrush what to
do. After giving Guybrush a
command, you see the
animated results of your
behest displayed in the

remainder of the screen.

The action starts by chat-
ting with a comically myopic
island lookout, who informs
Guybrush that he must
speak with three "important-
looking" pirates in the local
tavern to begin his quest.
Once located, this trio of
buccaneers explains that
Guybrush must complete
three trials before he can be
considered worthy of being a
pirate. These trials, which
consist of mastering the skills
of swordsmanship, thievery,
and "treasure-huntery," take
Guybrush from one end of
Melee Island to the other,
where he encounters a vari-
ety of colorful characters and
humorous situations.

Lnfortunately, Secret is
obviously an IBM-port, with
lackluster graphics and slug-
gish screen animation (at
least on a slock A500). In
addition, Secret offers no
capability to allow the user
to turn off the music other
than manually adjusting the
speaker volume. But good
game design alwavs seems to
overcome the problems of
format conversion, and
Secret does have a lot going
for it. The slow animation
and screen scrolling seen
when running on an A500
disappear when played on

an accelerated Amiga or on
an A3000 running Amiga-
DOS 2.0.

The dialogue between
Guybrush and the colorful
characters he meets can pro-
voke anything from smirks to
belly laughter. You guide
Guybrush through encoun-
ters with nutritionally con-
scious cannibals, curmud-
geon!}' shopkeepers, timid
pirates, and absent-minded
castaways. Guybrush even
gets the opportunity to ban-
ter with an animated head.
Secret boasts some of the
wittier and more humorous
pixel i/.ed patter that this
reviewer has ever had the
pleasure to read. Throw in a
surprise ending and a little
romance, and Secret begins
to develop into a fairlv enter-
taining adventure.

If you can live with Se-
cret's shortcomings, you'll be
rewarded by a lengthy and
involved four-disk adventure
of sailing under the Jolly
Roger, trading insults with
unwashed ruffians and hag-
gling with used ship sales-
men. You need at least 1MB
to run Secret, and it can be
installed into your hard
drive. I T you've enjoyed any
of Lucasfilm's earlier game
offerings, Secret just might
be your mug o'grog.

know how to use them. As you may
have gathered, the catacombs is the
final stop. Find the recess in the
floor, and use the stone you took
from the monster you killed in the
catacombs earlier. (Killing him is
also a sore point for some, but as
far as I can tell, it fust requires per-
severance and good swordfighting.l
This'll open a hidden doorway.
Check your health— you will need
lots of it — and go on in

Emelda herself is at the end of
the the passage. (She's been sitting
down here waiting for you for the
whole game, so she's plenty
ticked.} There's just one way to han-
dle her. First, put inside the pentan-
gle the sword you found beneath
the chapel altar. (If you're looking at
your copy of AW as though I'd just
told you to go swim in the moat, go
back and use Elvira's ring in the
cross. | Use the scroll from the
trunk, stick Emelda with the dagger
and sit back and (ahomj enjoy the
show.

Actually, go swim in the moat!
It's required to get one of the keys
and getting out is proving a mucky
busines for some folks. Where
there's a well, there's a way, but
chock topside first to be certain the
well rope is in the down position.

• You knew we'd eventually get
around to The Immortal (Electronic
Arts, S49.95), right? Some people
are stuck on Level 2; they've
learned how to get out from the
head goblin, but they don't have
quite the means. They're missing a
gem. Instead, they have this gross
rock.

Well, perhaps it's not a rock.
Could be just a dirty gem. Maybe if
you let the slimes in the level entry-
way kill you once or twice you'll get
the idea, eh?

Battle Command

By Peter Olafson

The much-delayed follow-up
to Carrier Command, Battle
Command (Ocean / Electron-
ic Arts, S34.95), has finally
made it over the Atlantic.
While it may not be as spec-
tacular as the original, it still
offers a lot of excitement and
realistic action.

You guide a futuristic
supertank (a "mauler")

through 16 missions behind
enemy lines, using an assort-
ment of weapons (don't
neglect the radar-guided
missiles) and go up against a
number of spunky and ag-
gressive enemy units — all
rendered in solid-3D.

Movement is speedv and
quite smooth — the clearest
carryover from CC — and
designer Realtime Software

used geometric shapes well
to create a fireball effect
when a vehicle or installa-
tion explodes in shards.
These moments achieve a
sort of vicious reality. I like
it! (There are lots of installa-
tions, by the way, so you'll
never be at a loss for some- •

• Here's a leftover from last issue's
hints on the graphic adventure ver-
sion of Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade (Lucasfilm, S49.95). Yes,
you do need to pull that giant cork
in the catacombs, as it's the only
way to get past the water-filled
room above. You'll need to borrow
something from a skeleton to get a
grip on it, though. Then whip it,
whip it good.

(However, before you do so, be
sure to note in inscriptions in the
room at the far end of the bridge, as
you'll need them for the endgame. |

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thing interesting to savage
with your arsenal.)

Moreover, Battle Com-
mand's missions are agree-
ably tough, even the first.
The enemy is often on you
from the time the hclicarrier
dumps you out — a nice bit

of animation here — and they
have a nasty habit of moving
laterally as they fire, which
ran make then) devilishly
hard to hit at closer ranges.
It's tough getting to your
mission destination; some-
limes it's tough just finding it.

It can be even tougher get-
ting to the pickup point with
whatever ammo you have
left, as your chopper ap-
proaches and enemy tanks
cilde like vultures.

And yet... I don't know:
I want to love it, but Battle
Command seems to be
missing that certain some-
thing that would kick into
the same class as its classic
predecessor.

Although the game is
billed as an arcade-strategy
hybrid, enemy units are
quite thick on the ground,
and hence it seems weighted
toward shooting. In addi-

tion, while the environment
for each mission is sizeable,
I do miss the open-ended,
continuous How of Carrier
Command. Some of the
graphics — black borders on
hills, the triangle-over-a-
rectangle of trees — struck
me as C64-crude. Finally,
the game has both on- and
off-disk copy protection and
no provision for hard-disk
installation.

But when the fuel dump
goes up, and the fireballs
blossom, somehow 1 forget
about that stuff, turn the
mauler around, and head
for home. ■

At the controls of a Mauler, You'll be ready for anything,

• Some odds and ends. We've got
a new address; 222 Henry St.,
Garden Apt., Brooklyn, NY 11201.
[Please write, rather than calling.)
Also, on GEnie I can now be reached
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via that route. However, I may join
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Finally, remember to send a SASE if
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Next time: The Secret of Monkey
Island.

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Whether on Syquest drives or genlocks, autobooting or
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Q: I've been planning on buying a new
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on removable media in Amiga World, I
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Is this Amiga-compatible? What will I need
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A: The new 88-mcgabvte Syquest drives
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Gem of a Genlock

Q: / have an A2000 with a 1084S moni-
tor, and I'm interested in writing some
interactive multimedia applications for my
company. I was hoping you could suggest a
good genlock, as I plan on using video from

By Louis R. Wallace

either a laserdisc player or a computer-
controllable VCR like the PC-VCRfrom
NEC. I do not plan on recording any video
through the genlock, so it doesn 't have to be
"broadcast" quality. Any suggestions?

B. Trevaro
Phoenix, Ariz.

A: It sounds as though you need Com-
modore's A2300 genlock. The video
and computer graphics output can be
displayed directly on your RGB moni-
tor in RGB mode, making it perfect for
interactive multimedia. It is also rela-
tively inexpensive, as far as genlocks
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on recording your applications to tape,
the A2300 also has an NTSC output
thai enables you to send the signal to a
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display, or to a VCR for recording.

A Running Start

Q: / understand that it is possible to add
statements to the Amiga's Startup-Sequence
in order to run programs and utilities when
the computer first starts up. I'm really not
very gotxl at using the CI. I, but it seems
.that some programs that work just fine
when I double-click on them from Work-
bench don't work as well when started from
the CI J. I have an A3000, and part of the
reason I bought it was that it supposedly
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there some easy way to start Workbench
programs automatically?

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A: As long as you are using Workbench
2.0, there is a very easy method to do
exactly what you want. On your Work-
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up. To have Workbench programs
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program in that drawer. If you have
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and want them to start in a particular
order, vou can use the STARTl'RI i

command in the program's Ibol Types.
'lb do this, click once on the program's
icon to highlight it, and then select
INFORMATION from the Workbench
Icons menu. To add a Tool Type, click
on the button labelled NEW This will
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input field to the right, from which you
can enter the Tool Type you require. In
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127. Those programs with the highest
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CDTV Software
Development

Q: / am considering developing some soft-
ware for Com module's neic COT}' system,
but I want to use a high-level dei'elopment
language and definitely don't want to resort
to C, assembly or other similar languages.
Do you think AmigaVision would he suitable
for CDTV development ? What other "multi-
media" languages would work?

B. Maloski
Cleveland, Ohio

A: In some ways, AmigaVision is a
perfect CDTV development language,
but it does not produce stand-alone
programs. Programs written with it
require AmigaVision in order to run,
and on CDTV that wouldn't leave a lot
of memory for the application. I have
heard that a special developers' version
of AmigaVision is coming for author-
ing CDTV applications, but no release
date has been announced.

There are several other high-level
authoring packages you should be able
to use for CDTV development. These
include The Director Version 2 (Right
Answers Group) and CanDo vl.5 (IN-
OVAtronics). In addition, the new
Foundation authoring language (Im-
pulse) sounds as if it would work as
well. All three of these sophisticated
programming tools support the various
multimedia elements you'd want to
have in a CDTV program. ■

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From p. 20.

of your creation before you render so
thai ii appears placed ai the correct
angle. After yon have framed your
object, you can record its placement so
thai when you go back to modeling or
forward to the next section, which is
rendering, the observer position will
correspond to the new location.

In Wireframe mode, yon can also
record your movements around an
object to create limited animations.
While RealSD provides no computer
in-betweening or ease-ins, you can.
however, create some basic animations
with macros and by drawing paths in
tri-view.

The third and final section is where
you set up your rendering. This area
has a very nice layout with lots or con-
trols for overlighting, base lighting,
background color, antialiasing, aspect
ratios, recursion depth, screen size — all
of which are amply explained in the
comprehensive, easy-to-read manual.
RealSD lets you determine what level
of rendering complexity you desire,
allowing you to start at a low (fast)
mode and working your way up to a
higher (slower) mode so that, you can
make sure that everything is how- you
want it before committing to some-
thing thai may lake a lot of time.

The images that you can Create di-
rectly with RealSD are in HAM. If you
want images in an Amiga format other
than HAM. you must render them in
2-1 -bit format first and then convert
them with a program such its Art De-
part mem I'm (ASDG) to another reso-
lution. You can import Sculpt 4D ob-
jects using the utility provided, but
since RealSD is not a vertex-based
program, you cannot export objects to
other 3-D programs such as Sculpt or
Imagine. RealSD provides support for
24-bit IIT.ILBM formats.

1 am very impressed by the overall
logic of RealSD. It is a well-thought-out
program that adheres to its concepts.
You do not gel the feeling that any-
thing was just stuck in at the last
minute. Each screen is verv well laid
out, with lots of buttons and keyboard
equivalents to maximize speed and
ease of use.

At first, it may seem a little stiff to
make everything in the world out of
primitive shapes, especially free-form
objects like human beings and plants,
but as you become familiar with the
process, you will soon find thai the
speed at which you can create objects
more than makes up for it. Also, 1 have

heard that the future of this product
holds in store a free-form object tool
kit. I am looking forward to it. (Editor's
note: The developer had plans at press time
tn release a significant upgrade (luring
September. Acliva primuses more than 65
neiv functions, including jiee-form model-
ing and point editing.)

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Pelican Press

It's going to be a banner year!

By Rick Manasa

BY ITS LIGHTHEARTED name, you
may guess thai this banner- and poster-
generating program is geared toward
the home and school set. That doesn't
mean, however, that you cannot use it
for more serious projects. Queue's Peli-
can Press ($99.95) packs some pretty
powerful features into what might oth-
erwise be dismissed as kids' stuff.

The program comes on one bootable
disk, with two disks of clip art, and it is
both Workbench 1.3- and 2.0-compati-

Pelican Press lets you combine clip art
with your own text and graphics.

ble. The manual makes no assumptions
about your previous experience, and
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of fuss, file hard-disk install program
is Spartan, but efficient. .After perform-
ing the suggested assigns, I was up and
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Pelican Press runs on a ">I2K. Amiga,
but I strongly recommend 1MB of
RAM. Some of the larger formats may
limit the amount and size of the clip

art and text you can use. You can moni-
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means of the miniature traffic light
located in the upper right-hand coiner
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a standard Amiga when running Peli-
can Press. In fact, a great deal of care is
taken throughout the manual to antici-
pate any problems you might run into,
including everything from the possible
consequences of using the program on
a 512K system to the basics of using
the Amiga operating system.

Shorts

There are many hot-key equivalents to
the menu commands. Some are of the
key-combination variety, while others
are single-key equivalents, like those
found in DeluxePaint (Electronic Arts).
As you become familial - with the pro-
gram, you will appreciate this more
and more. The ability to access menu
functions from the keyboard leaves the
mouse positioned for editing or draw-
ing, where you need it most.

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be familial" with the operation of the
.Amiga and paint programs before walk-
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of the program's fundamentals.

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out some not-so-obvious ways to use the
many tools and features in the pro-
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other paint or graphics program.

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or load one from the Backgrounds and
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background.

Posters, Signs, and Notes are identi-
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are three screens high, Signs are two,
and Notes arc one. Cards are com-
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Note-sized graphic on top. Banners
use their own Fonts, which are not
compatible with system fonts. While
yon cannot have backgrounds or
frames with Banners, yon can sprinkle
clip art and text throughout the letters.

Pelican Press also allows you to im-
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you can do it with the program's exten-
sive array of drawing tools. Conversely,
if you save all your projects as IFF files,
you can use them with other paint and
graphics programs. These are tremen-
dous advantages over the first versions
of PrintMaster (Unison World) and
Deluxe Print (Electronic Arts), the two
Amiga programs most similar to Peli-
can Press.

Pelican Press's Tool Box comes with a
full complement of paint-box drawing
and editing toiils for working on back-
grounds or clip art. The program also
includes other features that lend cre-
dence to the claim that Pelican Press is
a publishing program. You can move
or copy a piece of clip art, position
various clips in from of or behind
other pieces, and delete those already
in place. While you would expect to see
these features in a desktop-publishing
program, they are not normally found
in a paint program.

The program's Menu items allow
you to load and save your work, change
your palette, and select and place your
graphics and text. Some features, how-
ever, are more thoroughly developed
than others. The Print requester re-
minds me of the one in DeluxePainl
with lots of choices and parameters for
designing your final output You can
create your own patterns for tiling a
background, using any enclosed or
user-supplied IFF graphic. You can
even layer background patterns and
stamp clip art into the background.

The Bird Lands

As much as I like Pelican Press, there
are some things I would have done
differently. There should either be a
wider selection of Banner fonts — the
program provides only two — or a way
to convert system fonts for making
banners. Also, the Preview 1 mode is
ineffective for examining your layout;
it's strictly for getting a broad sense of
your design. In addition, although

there are many hot-key equivalents,
there is no on-screen help to jog your
memory. A simple text screen attached
to the Help kev would suffice, A magni-
fy feature would certainly make detail-
ing easier, and it would be wonderful if
Undo worked its magic on any action,
not just the last action involving a
drawing tool.

The developers at Queue really did a
nice job with Pelican Press. You would
have a hard time finding one with this
much power and versatility that's easier
to use. It provides all the tools and
features we have come to expect from a
program of this type, plus an integrat-
ed paint program. It enables you to
express your creativity in a format that
is easy to understand and fun to use.
My ten-year-old whisked it away from
me the day the review copy arrived,
and she's been making impressive
banners and posters ever since. Now
she wants a color printer for her birth-
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Norgen/Your
Family Tree

For those who dig roots.
By Betty Clay

IN JUST ABOUT any family, there is
always one person who keeps track of
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She's the only one who knows who is
related to whom, and she's also the one
who can identify all those strangers in
the family albums. Genealogy is a keen
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to — the past.

Many people cake their genealogy
very seriously. Those who delve deep
into musty records and spend hours
looking for clues are pretty demanding
when it comes to trusting the fruits of
their labor to a computer. The Amiga's
graphics, multitasking, and large mem-
ory capacity all make it excellent for
genealogy. In addition, its compatibili-
ty with other platforms — via hardware
such as Commodore's Bridge-boards or
ReadySoft's A-Max, or conversion
software such as CrossDOS (Consul-
tron) or DOS-2-DOS (Central Coast
Software) — make it ideal for exchang-
ing data with other genealogists using
foreign equipment.

While it would seem that the Amiga
has every right to be the computer of

choice for genealogists, the appropri-
ate software has been somewhat scarce.
Only two such Amiga programs are
now available: Norgen (S99.95), from
Norris Software, and Your Family Free
(S79.95), from MicroMaster.

The Acid Test

I lard-disk installation for both Norgen
and Your Family Tree (YFf), each with
its own installation script, leaves some-
thing to be desired. With Norgen. all
you do is double-click the install icon,
but only il your setup agrees with the
drive and partition names in the script.
Should you need to change the name
ol the drive or partition, you must use
an editor to change the actual installa-
tion script, save it to your disk, and
then execute the edited script.

YFF has no icon for its script, and
the earliest versions did not run be-
cause of syntax errors. The latest ver-
sion (v'2.1) works well, but it still has no
icon, and the instructions never men-
tion the script.

Anyone who can fill out a form on a
typewriter will find data entry extreme-
ly easy in either of these programs.
YFF is a far more attractive program
visually. Its screens are colorful and
thoughtfully laid out. Norgen's screens
are easy to understand, as well, but
they are plain and unimaginative. The
program would profit greatly from
some good artwork.

Norgen, a family-based program,
presents you with a page that stores the
name of an individual, along with
information about his birth and death,
the names of both his parents and all
of his siblings, the name of his spouse,
with wedding date and place, a list of
their children, and a section for hold-
ing free-form text about this person.
The completed page covers the entire
family of the subject.

Once you have entered the siblings
and the children of an individual, Nor-
gen automatically transfers that data to
a family sheet for each of those siblings
or spouses. When working from my
oldest ancestors towards the present, I
found this to work reliably. When work-
ing from the present to the past, I
frequently received an error message
saying that the record could not be
found, and I had to retype all of tile
data. This is a really useful feature, but
il needs to be more dependable. For all
its intended ease of entry, Norgen re- *■

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quired me to retype many items thai
should be transferred automatically.

YFI" is individual-based. It presents a
page that asks for the name of the
subject, the date and place of his birth,
christening, death, and burial, his
place of residence, his occupation, and
his religion. After you complete the
individual records of the subject and
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Norgen lets you enter information about
whole families.

This is a strong point in YFT's favor,
because the data is easy to enter, and
every screen shows you whether you
have completed the information for
the subject's family, parents, notes, and
pictures. A click of the mouse lets you
move to the next or previous individu-
al, and a menu item permits you to
jump to the record of any person in

the database.

Who, What, When, and Where

Kntcring dates is frequently a problem
area, and each of these programs ex-
pects you to use a standard date for-
mat, with Norgen being especially
picky. YFTwill warn you if a date does
not match the format, but you can
disable this function if you wish.

Norgen insists that every date follow
the pattern dd-mmm-yyyy, but it ac-
cepts question marks for digits about
which you are unsure, and it will accept
years without months or days. This is
helpful, but not nearly as useful as the
before-about-after dates that can be
used in YFT.

YFI" accepts up to eight marriages
per individual, and up to 40 children
per couple. I entered more than 20
marriages and more than 40 children
in Norgen and still found no limit.
Both programs place length restric-
tions on names: Norgen allows 30
characters each, but you can use a
(unction key to get more space. YFT
permits three separate first names,
each up to 20 characters, and allows 60
spaces for place names. Both programs
provide unlimited note space for each
family or individual.

Both Norgen and YFT rely far too
heavily on the use of ID numbers.
While YFT will permit you to assign
any number you wish to any person,
including Ahneiuafe! and Henry num-
bers, you must know the ID before you
can link records. With a database of
thousands of names, this is ridiculous.
At least each program prints alpha-
betical lists of names from the

database, with corresponding ID num-
bers. (YFT allows you to search by
birthdate, as well.)

Neither program uses the Soundex
system to account for valiants in
spelling, though YFT will permit
searches using phonetic spelling. Nor-
gen makes an effort to allow for
spelling variations by permitting each
person to have an alias.

Both Norgen and YFF boast a
unique feature: Each can store and
display IFF pictures of any individual
or document. With Norgen. you must
assign a User-Defined Held in order to

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out documentation on any kind of
report, this i n:ikt -^ tluni nnsniuibk' lot
professional use.

It is true that you can include docu-
mentation in the space provided lot-
notes, but this mixes documentation of
line items with narratives. It is clumsy
and inadequate. There should be sepa-
rate provisions for footnotes and bibli-
ographies.

Another area that needs improve-
ment is error identification. In VFT, I
was allowed to main' off a ten-year-old
child without a complaint, although it
did warn about a child born before the
date of the parents' marriage! Norgen
did not seem to mind a wife born a
hundred years before her husband, nor
was it bothered by a child born after his
parents' death. Also, whereas Norgen
would not accept a duplicate record.
YtT accepted one without so much as a
warning. Although genealogists ought
to be particularly careful, typing errors
happen, and checking for them makes
a program far more valuable.

The Search

Both Norgen and YTT tan search their

databases to locate anv individual or

group of individuals, and they permit
the use of logical statements such as
AND. OR, or EQUALS in order to
select the individuals who lit the cri-
teria. Each program lets you set up and
save search criteria, and each offers
extensive search options. Both pro-
grams' searching ability is outstanding
for any genealogy program on any
platform.

Norgen's reports are basic. It lists all
individuals in the database alphabeti-
cally or by ID number. It makes pedi-
gree charts, descendant charts (to 30
generations), family group records, and
calendars of family anniversaries or
events, and it will print out the entire
database or search report. It also lets
you print any screen with the touch of
a key, and (be results are attractive.

YFT's greater variety of reports
includes descendant (to 99 genera-
tions) and pedigree charts, individual
and family group sheets, and lists of
individuals in the database. Ft also
oilers several forms of each of the
standard charts. While it makes reports
that are similar to Ahnenlafel and Tiny
Tafel charts, it does not follow the
standard format required for them,

and the reports made by YFT could
not be used to exchange data on the
NGS or FIDO bulletin boards.

1 did not find the YFT default charts
to be as nicely formatted on the page
as I would like, but the reports can be
printed to disk, and then edited in any
word processor before printing. YFT
provides many wavs for you to cus-
tomize reports, whereas Norgen merely
prints them according to its default
standard.

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Publishing genealogists require soft-
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format, complete will) tables of con-
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COM at some future date, neither
program has it now. Had it been avail-
able, I could have moved my own
database of a couple ol thousand
names into these programs, and could
have told you much more about how 7
the programs perform with large
amounts of data. Instead, I had to type
records into each program as though I
were beginning from scratch.

GEDCOM is an invaluable aid to
those who exchange data, which almost
all genealogists do. Without it. one
must manually enter every record
obtained from colleagues. Norgen
actually has a menu item For GED-
COM, but it is not yet implemented.
YFT merely has a questionnaire asking
if purchasers would be interested in
buying it as an extra utility at a later
date. These programs must have GED-
COM il they are to be of service to
truly serious genealogists.

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have all of the features on the list. Their
lack of some desirable features, however,
should not discourage you from using
either of these programs if what they
can do meets your requirements.

For beginning genealogists, for those
who do not plan to publish, and for
those who prefer working with entire
families at one time, Norgen would he
a good choice. For those who demand
more, and who do not mind a higher
learning curve, YFr is more powerful
and dependable. Each of these pro-
grams answers various needs, and your
choice should be determined by your
own preferences and expectations.

RxTools

Puts a spin on ARexx.

By Dave McClellan

AREXX APPEARED ON the scene

when the Amiga was badly in need of a
good scripting language. Back then,
the CLI was only slightly better than
MS-DOS batch files (not good) for
writing intelligent scripts.

While ARexx provides excellent
program communication facilities, flow

control, and variable string processing,
its own user interface is somewhat
primitive. With ARexx, you use the SAY
command to display strings on screen
and PULL or PARSE FUEL to read
strings in. Phis is a far cry from Intu-
ition, but if you are only writing
macros, aesthetics are not important.
Because many of us use ARexx for all
kinds of scripts — not just, for editor
macros — there really is a need for a
more elegant interface. This is where
RxTools (S54.95) from TTR Develop-
ment conies in.

As a (unci ion host for ARexx, Rx-
Tools provides methods for creating
Intuition-like windows that feature
menus, gadgets, requesters, editing
functions, file requesters, and the like.
The object-oriented RxTools lets you
pass messages and call functions
through windows and other objects you
create.

Strung Out

The RxTools' function host imple-
ments four ARexx functions: _send.
send, kill, and self. The multipurpose
_send and send functions implement
RxTools functions by transmitting
messages to RxTools classes and ob-
jects. For example, to open a window
and place a string into it, you first
create a window by sending an _OPEN
message to the rx_consoic class. Then
you send to the new window object the
message:

"PUT_STRING" and a siring:

new win = send) 'rx console',
OPEN, 10, 10,200, 100,
"Win", mv_port )

call send new_win,
PuTSTRING, 'Some string text'

The _send function, which sends
messages to classes, here sends the
_OPEN message to the rx console class
with position, size, title and message
poll parameters. The send function on
the other banc! (no leading under-
score), sends messages to objects creat-
ed from RxTools classes. In the preced-
ing example, it sends the _PUT
_STRING message and a string argu-
ment to the window object new_win.
Using these two (unctions, and know-
ing which messages return useful val-
ues, you can use most of Intuition from
.ARexx.

The other two functions are rarely
used in ordinary programming. SELF
returns a pointer to the Rx'Ibols func-
tion host and carries special messages.
KIEL tells the function host to exit atid

free up all script-created RxTools
objects.

The following ARexx script demon-
strates more available functions and
implements a window for deleting or
editing files.

/* Beginning of script */

rx_tools_init = gelclip{
'rx_tools_init' )

interpret rx_tools_init

/* Create and open window */
twin = _send( 'rx console', _OPEN,
10, 20, 200, 100, ,
"Files", my_port )
number_ol_open_windows = 1

/* Create button gadgets */
call send fwin, _ADD_HIT_GAD-
GET, DEL HDLR, 20, 60, 'Del'

call send fwin, ADD HIT GAD-
GET, EDI'THDER, 100, 60, 'Edit'

evenijiandler = getclip(
'rx_tools_evem_handler' )
interpret event_handler

/* Event Handlers */'
DELJHDLR: procedure
parse arg from_win
F_req = send( 'filejrequester",
_CREATE, fromwin )

the_lile_name = send( f_req,
_POST )

if lhe_lile_name — = "" then

DELETE" lhe_lile_name
call send fjeq, FREE
return
EDITHDLR:
parse arg from_win
f_req = _send( 'file_requester",
_CREATE, from_win )

the_lile_name = send( f_req,
POST )

if thc_filejname —= "" then

'C:emacs' the_file_namc
call send l_req, _FREK
return
CLOSEWINDOW: procedure expose
number_of_open_windows packet
parse arg f_win
call send fwin, _CLOSE
call send l>in, DELETE
number_of openjwindows = num-
ber_of_open_windows - I

if number_of_open_windows =
then

call reply packet,

exit
end
else

return
end
/* End of script DelEd.rcxx */ ►-

102 October 1991

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R E V 1 E W S

"Hie Rrsl line establishes the Rx'Ibols
environment, including the constants
needed for function calls. Then the
script opens a window and records the
number of open windows for exit pro-
cessing. Then it adds two pushbutton
gadgets to the window by sending it
ADDHITGADGET messages' That
message tells RxTbols which ARexx
procedures to call when the buttons are
clicked (DELHDLRand EDITHDLR
respectively), where to put them in the
window, and what text to put into them
(Del and Edit).

After installing the buttons, the next
two lines correspond to event process-
ing, which means watching for gadget
selects and CLOSEWINDOW events.
You must provide a CLOSEWINDOW
procedure for any window with a close-
button located in its upper left-hand
cornel". RxTools can selectively remove
any system window gadget as long as
you tell it to do so before you open the
window. The interpret eventjiandler
line loops until one of the procedures
exits the ARexx script, which is what
the CLOSEWINDOW procedure does
at the end. It uses my_port, established
in the _OPEN window call, to receive
events.

The first procedure is DEI._HDI.R.
It is called whenever a user clicks on
the "Del" button, with one argument —
a "pointer" to the window containing
the button. When it's called, DEL_
I IDLR pops up a file requester (via
the _CREATE message to the file_
requester class, followed by the _l'OS I
message to ihe new requester). If the
lile requester f_req returns a name,
DELHDLR deletes that file; if the
user selects [he CANCEL button on die
requester, it returns no name, and
1)EL._1 IDLR does nothing except free
the lile requester. Alter it finishes,
I)EL_HD1.R returns to event loop
processing so the script can wait for the
next event.

The EDL1 _HDLR procedure basical-
ly does the same ihing, substituting a
tall lo the cmacs editor. The final pro-
cedure, CLOSEWINDOW, is called
when the user hits the window's clos-
button. It lakes care of shutting down
open windows and exiting the script.

The Full Course

Installing menus in a window is a litde
more involved up front, as you must
name each menu-bar item and then
describe all the menu choices belong-
ing to it, including their respective
procedures and shortcut keys. Process-
ing menu events works exactly the
same as the gadget event handling

above. Simple requesters are not much
more complicated. "lb build your re-
quester, you merely _CREATE it and
add each gadget to it (with its own
procedures), along with two more pro-
cedures to be called when the requester
appears on screen. The "rcq clear"
procedure, which is called when the
requester completes, is the one you use
to extract the siring or number or
whatever your requester asked for, for
use in the rest of the script. But if you
get complicated, it can be a lot more
work; more on this later.

Briefly, the rest of Rx'Ibols provides
classes and methods for all sorts of
gadgets such as boolean, string, inte-
ger, and proportional. These include
notification boxes; borders and some
simple drawing methods; console win-
dows with accompanying page-viewer
and editor methods (cursor move,
cut/paste, search and replace, etc.);
custom-screen and window methods;
file-requester and directory-listing
methods; and methods for managing
the RxTools function hosl and Rx'Ibols
classes.

There are also some nice data struc-
tures present that you can use as well —
a doubly-linked lisi class, an AVL tree,
and bag and stack classes. These come
with a minimal "class browser" to help
determine all the messages these class-
es and objects accept

Not everything, however, is rosv with
RxTools. The manual is not nearly
thorough enough to describe the prod-
uct, and it counts on the browser and
your own intuition a little loo much.
The 80-odd page booklet is full of
program mcr-ese (the implemcnter
WTOte it), and while it starts off with a
couple of acceptable tutorials, it finish-
es with an incomplete reference section
that lists only the commonly used mes-
sages of most classes and their parame-
ters. Not nearly all the messages are
present, nor does it go into some
more complex programming, such as
that needed for calling hand-built
requesters from within gadget-hand-
lers — I hung up a script a few times
doing that.

The manual relies on your using the
browser lo determine all of a class's
messages. The browser is an ARexx
script that can either list all classes (and
phylums — parents to a set or class), or a
single class's messages and argument
types. It is woefully insufficient. TTR
does provide a decent set of example
Scripts, but they cover onlv the basics of
using the various classes.

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but they also set me tip on their sup-
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RxTools.

In conclusion, I like RxTools. ARcxx
has needed something like it for quite
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tty-it programming.

Protext

Give us the word!

By Bill Frazier

WHEN IT COMES to the heavy-duty

mechanics of traditional word-process-
ing programs, Protext ($199.95, Amor/
MichTron) excels. In addition to the
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of which vou can easily install on vour
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The three-volume manual comprises a
tutorial, a guide to the printer drivers,
and a User Guide and Reference.
Once installed, Pretext's system
configuration lets you select and save
your own default start-up preferences.
The program requires a minimum of
1 MB of RYM and Workbench 1 .2 or
later. Although ignoring the Work-

With Protext, you can draw boxes
around text to make flowcharts.

bench printer drivers in favor of Pro-
text's own drivers may seem redundant
at first, the developers actually provide
a great service by including every op-
tion available for each of the 150 popu-
lar printers that Protext currently sup-
ports (with more of them under
development).

The manuals supplied with Protext
are among the most complete and easy
to use of any I've worked with. They
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tensive table of contents and index,
and are simple to read and under-
stand. The occasional use of "whilst"
and similar words reflects the
program's origin, but the User Guide
as a whole is an excellent document.
All manuals were created using Protext,
and they provide further proof of (he
quality output possible when using this
program.

Following Intuition guidelines, Pro-
text provides the usual Amiga menu
line and includes a large number of
pull-down menu items. Nearly all menu
selections are accessible to experienced
users by way of keyboard shortcuts.

Protext provides a file-menu selec-
tion called Catalogue Files, which,
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files. You can change the directory
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tree from this screen. Using this fea-
ture, you can manipulate files may in
almost any manner you wish.

If you need to produce a simple box
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Protext provides the tools. Pressing the
proper function key allows the cursor
keys to double as line-drawing keys.
This option makes it easy to box items
and set them off from the text or to
produce simple organizational charts.
Printed lines are clean and smooth,
without jagged edges.

Using Pretext's Programming
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line above.

Not Picture Perfect

Pretext does have a problem or two.
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pen to be using, it limits the text shown
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it difficult to visualize what the final
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find hard to do without is Pretext's
inability to incorporate graphics or clip
art with text. Today, most of the top
Amiga word processors provide this
feature, and this alone could influence

106 Orlober 1991

some Amiga users to shun the program.

Although Protect provides excellent
spell-checking, it does not include a
built-in thesaurus. Many word-process-
ing programs now have such a feature,
and I find myself using a thesaurus
more and more each time I write.
While you could use a stand-alone
thesaurus program wit I] Protext, this is
not a very convenient solution.

lYotext does not have the "look and
(eel" of"a native Amiga program. Be-
cause it is available on a number of
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is also reflected in the program design.

The value of any word processor lies
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tive, qualitv documents. Protext docs
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Less for less money

By Greg Morris

DO YOU FIND yourself buried under a
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menu by pressing the right mouse
button unci choose to search "by exam-
ple." A requester appears, asking what
you are searching for. Von can search
not only for exact matches, but also for
those that are "greater than," "less
than," "not equal to." and so forth —
which is especially useful when you
want to display numerical items within
a specified range, In a real estate data-
base, for instance, you could use this
feature to display only those houses
costing between $200,000 and $300,000.

You can save each InfoFile request to
display specific criteria to disk as a
"View." One View might always show a
sorted list of names, while another
could display only people named Jones
who live in Los Angeles. Views make it
easier to use the same database for
displaying diU'erent aspects of informa-
tion without having to select the vari-
ous options every lime you need them.

InfoFile allows you to print informa-
tion in two ways. In List mode, it prints
your information in row-at id-column
formal, much like the List display you
see on the screen. In form mode, how-
ever, the program prints labels in what-
ever format you choose according to

the way you move the fields around on
the screen with the mouse.

Picture and Sound Refererences

In addition to more standard database
functions, InfoFile provides some
unique features, including the ability to
store references to picture or sound
files in the database. When you click on
a referent c to a picture file, InfoFile
displays that picture on the screen.
Similarly, by simply clicking on the
name of an audio Hie in the database,
you can bear the actual sound pro-
duced through the Amiga's audio port.
This capability adds new dimensions,
for example, it) databases set up for
music collections, because you can
store not only text information about
the music, but also the actual digitized
sound.

InloFilc's user interface works well,
and its response to keyboard input is
fast because the program keeps the
entire database in RAM as long as
there is enough memory available.

While InfoFile functions well for its
intended purpose, ii lacks the sophisti-
cated features of a professional data-
base program. It works best as an elec-

tronic index-card file system. For the
price, you can hardly expect the power
and features of a Supcrbase, but the
fact remains that InfoFile is a genera-
tion behind current database pro-
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is its option to "set system date/time," a
useless function unless you have an
Amiga 1000, which does not have a
battery-backed internal clock.

The 70-page manual covers the
product in a satisfactory fashion, in-
cluding a tutorial as well as several
examples. The program provides sev-
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disk to get you started, while also de-
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If you want to organize data in a
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and whistles, InfoFile could fit your
requirements, especially ifyou use
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database. On the other hand, if your
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with a more sophisticated relational-
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Audio Engineer Plus
SoundMaster

Eight-bit hold-outs.

By Micheal Hanish

WHILE II IF. WAVE of the future in
sound may lit; with the emerging 12-
and 16-bit audio-digitizing technology,
two recent arrivals on the sound-sam-
pler market prove thai 8-bit technology
is still alive and kicking. Both Audio
Engineer I'lns ($349. RamScan/Micro-
Pace) and SoundMaster (SI 99.95.
$99.95 without software, Oxxi) produce
excellent samples for playback at just
about the highest level that the Amiga's
native sound capabilities can handle.
Ironically, both samplers ship with
virtually the same software controller,
namely, Oxxi's AudioMaster 111. al-
though RanuScan refers to its software
as Audio Engineer (the hardware is
called Audio Imager)- The superb
sample-editing features of AudioMaster
III have been well documented in pre-
vious issues oi'AmigaWorlii (see Mar. '91,
p. 13, for a complete review, and also

"Accent on Audio," p. 42 in this issue).
Suffice it to say that by using Audio-
Master III, you can do virtually any-
thing you wish to the sample with the
utmost precision and speed.

For the purposes of this review, we
will focus on the hardware capabilities
of each sampler. In a strict sense, a
comparative review of the two packages
is not quite fair, as Audio Engineer
costs quite a bit more than SoundMas-
ter. While the former holds a narrow
performance edge, the latter repre-
sents good quality at excellent value.

SoundMaster

SoundMaster is a Ix4x6-inch box that

attaches to your Amiga's parallel port
with a meter-long cable. The unit's
input-level slider and the overload
LED are located on the top panel
along with the microphone-level in-
puts. The slider's long, smooth track
controls both microphone- or line-
input channels simultaneously. You can
easily make software adjustments to the
balance after recording a sample, but
von will get the best results by using a
mixer. The actual sampling is done by
one analog-to-digital converter, rapidly

switching between channels to achieve
stereo.

SoundMaster's line inputs are actual-
ly RCA jacks, the kind found on virtu-
ally all audio equipment from CD
players, tape decks, amplifiers, to cam-
corders. The microphone inputs are
high-impedance mini-plugs, which I
found to be somcwhai noisy. Both sets
of inputs automatically produce mono
samples when you make a connection
to the right channel only. You activate
the internal microphone by pressing a
hot-key combination before sampling.

I he internal microphone can remain
active simultaneously with other inputs,
which makes it possible to produce, for
example, a voice over a stereo sound
effect. In practice, however. I recom-
mend avoiding the internal micro-
phone as it is low-Iklelily and omni-
directional. The microphone's
proximity causes it pick up computer
noises. It would be far better to use an
external mixer or even one ol the
microphone inputs.

All in all, SoundMaster functions
quite well. The long cable makes desk-
top placement and control easy. The

Continued cm p. 113.

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Memory World, 94
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Microposc Software, 59
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New Horizons Software. 13
New Horizons Software, 43
NewTek, Inc., CII
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Pvsgnosis, 45
RCS Management, 55
ReadySnft, Inc., 2
Roger Coats, 105
Safe Harbor, 120
SAS Institute, 62
Sideline Software, 93

SMC Software Publishers, 125

Solil.ogik Corp., 47

Software Hut, 125

Software Support Int'i. 121

Soft Wood, Inc., 15

Supra Corp., 19

Supra Corp,, 21

The Software Shop, 103

IViMedia Incorporated, 125

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Virtual Reality Laboratory, 48

Ylsionsoft, 125

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R E V I i: VI s

From p. J 09.

overload I .ED gives v >u a fairly a< cu-
rate indication of your hardware's peak
saturation point. II von use she I.ED
with tlit- software's .sampler controls,
von can get samples with as wide a
dynamic range as the original. The
hardware has a dynamic range of about
48 dB and a wide frequency response
(20-20,000 Hz); this is plenty of leeway
for capturing sounds in all their fidelity
with a minimum of cross talk.

There are, however, two questionable
items concerning the hardware design.
While an uncommon feature Tor sam-
plers, parallel-port pass-through really
should be provided. Without pass-
through, you are forced either to power
down and change connections or pur-
chase a switch box (which can add
noise) in order to use a printer. The
second design feature of which 1 be-
came wary concerns the input plugs
located on top of the unit. Because
these are lacing up, they have the
potential to become dust catchers
(if unused).

Audio Engineer Plus

The GSOI-T Audio Imager, the hard-
ware part of the Audio Engineer Plus
package, offers a much more rugged

and feature-packed design, at a higher
price. The main controls, left and right
input level knobs and mic/line selector
switches for each channel, are on the
front panel of a 6 ! Ax I VsxB'/a-inch
metal box. It attaches to and gets pow-
er from the parallel port with a cable
1 '/s feet long. The front panel also
provides mini-plug, mic-level inputs
(high impedance) and an LED over-
load indicator. Audio Engineer's line
inputs are located on the rear panel,
along with a parallel-port pass-through
that's controlled by a switch on the
front panel. Since each channel can
accept mic or line-level inputs inde-
pendently, it is easy to combine and
control sources without a separate
mixer (although they are helpful when
sampling).

There are two analog-to-digital con-
verters, one For each channel, yielding
noticeably better sample fidelity and
less cross talk. I he level-control knobs
have a large adjustment range to ac-
commodate a wide variety of input
levels. While these produce some noise
during initial use, it disappears after
they rotate a few limes.

If you need to adjust the DC offset
(bias adjustment), you can do so with a
small recessed screw on the real panel.

This operation is part of the set-up
procedure, done with a supplied pro-
gram, to prevent residual line noise as
a result of excessive preamplifiralion.

Audio Imager's dynamic range is
more than 48 dB, and frequency re-
sponse goes wav beyond the usual 20-
20,000 Hz. Willi Audio Imager, you
will gel samples of a quality thai very-
likely surpasses most requirements.
Even the most complex stereo samples
are clear, well-defined and accurate,
with virtually no cross talk. Even when
resampling, yields are very small and
very clean.

Pick a Sample, Any Sample

It's an interesting exercise to be able to
compare two different pieces of hard-
ware designed to work with essentially
the same software. The software is
excellent, and you won't be disappoint-
ed with either piece of hardware. Both
are very good in design and perfor-
mance. "I he Audio Imager is superior
by a notch in engineering, design, and
results, although I found SoundMas-
ler's extra cable length convenient.
SoundMaster does an almost equally
excellent job and costs less. Consider
your needs and your budget. ■

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CANDID RESPONSES TO AMIGAWORLD REVIEWS

Image Manipulation Gone
Haywire

I must bring to your attention state-
ments appearing in the September
issue which are inaccurate and/or
misleading to your readers. Addii ion-
all;, I call into question the journalis-
tic ethics of printing clearly skewed
comparison articles under the guise of
objective reviews. The "review" of
RasterLink by Mitch Wells is one
example.

An objective review does not nor-
mally begin with several paragraphs
describing the failings of other prod-
ucts. In fact, responsible journalists
tend to limit references to other prod-
ucts (good or had) only when writing
comparisons.

When these ill-placed paragraphs
contain falsehoods, they reflect very
poorly on your publication. To wit:
"Besides ail that, ADPro will not dis-

play 24-bit images." ADPro, in fact,
directly supports 24-bit display de-
vices that are mentioned in the article
(firecracker and Harlequin) as well as
a number of others.

Another error occurs when the au-
thor savs that he cannot work with an
image laiger than a single screen even
though he has 7MB of memory. Well,
with only 5MB of las! memory, ADPro
owners can manipulate true color
images larger than 1024x1024 pixels.
This is considerably larger than "a
single screen" size of 768x480.

Another misrepresentation occurs
in the very next paragraph (beginning
"Thankfully...") where Mr. Weils
suggests thai for $199.95, the Raster-
Link purchaser gets the ability to
directly control Targa display boards
and film recorders. Checking with the
"Amazing Computing Buyers Guide"
reveals that TGALink (sold separately)
is an additional $299.95, and Cine-

Link (sold separately) is another addi-
tional $299.95. Mr. Wells specifically
states that these are included capabili-
ties "not found in oilier image-conver-
sion packages."

lite review points to the ability' to
process images in small chunks as
being an unmitigated advantage of
RasterLink. The article fails to point
out that disk-based processing is slow-
er in performance. East performance
is something which animators require
and other products deliver. Further,
the reviewer does not mention any of
RasterLink's memory failings.

In summary', your magazine stands
as one of the front running publica-
tions in the Amiga market. Your edito-
rial policies should also be first rate.
Unfortunately, they are not. You insti-
tuted a policy of "fact checking" when
you joined AmigaWforld. Clearly that
policy is not being carried out as
checking with cither Active Circuits or

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ASDG would have alerted your editors
as to the serious deficiencies in this
article.

— Perry Kivolowitz
ASDG

Editor's Notes: Perry makes a number
of very valid points. Some of our state-
ments about AD Pro could he. misinter-
preted. Our fact checking sometimes fails,
and when it does, we admit it. In this case,
since the review was not of ADPro, the
AmigaWorld staff did not check these
fads with ASDG. In the future, we will
check facts with manufacturers even if they
are not the focus of the review.

— Doug Barney

Due to space constraints, several lines
of text were cut from Mitch's introductory
material including "ADPro will allow
display of 24-bit files provided you have
the proper hardware combination like the
Mimetics FrameBuffer of the Impulse
Firecracker 24).

While editing, too much was cut thereby

changing the meaning. This is unfortu-
nately the ease with this review. My apolo-
gies to Mitch.

— J.Jackson

On Time

We take issue with several parts of
August's Video Suite column, where
the AT- 7 and I\T-9 Plus TBCs are
concerned. The first prominent error
in the article that both the IVT-7 and
rVT-9Plus have their Proc AMP con-
trols located behind the Front panel.
This is incorrect. Only the l\T-7 has
the Proc AMP control behind the
front panel.

Then, the article states that the Proc
AMP controls would not eliminate
fuzziness. Eliminating fuzziness is not
the function of the Proc AMR Ftizzi-
ness is sometimes caused by mis-
adjustment of the noise reduction pot
VR-10. Correct adjustment of VR-10
and RY, B-Y balance should remove
fuzziness as indicated in the opera-

tional manual of (he unit.

—Joehan Tonkingkeo
I.DEN Vuleolronics

Note: The placement of the Pmc .4MP
controls became a bit confused in the re-
writing process. Concerning the fuzziness, J
diii not mean to imply that the Pmc AMP
controls would eliminate fuzziness, we tested
all the units without opening them up and
fiddling with the internal settings. We did
perform all the phasing and timing adjust-
ments externally. If the noise reduction cir-
cuit ry is that in need of adjustment, perhaps
they should consider designing more access-
able controls. All in all, the VRT-7 and
71 T'-9Plus performed quite within reason,
they just performed on the lower end of
those tested.

— Mike Hanish

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